elected

All of that is the hard work that we all have to do as electeds.

At the time (and until 1913), U.S. senators were not popularly elected but were selected by the state legislature.

In contrast, Boehner's leadership team filed into his ceremonial office and greeted the teary newly-elected Speaker with hugs.

The state also elected Republican Nikki Haley, an Indian-American, as governor.

When our elected representatives assume their respective offices, they take an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution.”

When Fossella was first elected to Congress in 1997 at age 32, Molinari was described as his political godfather.

He looked up from his fish and replied, somewhat cuttingly, "By contesting a borough and getting elected."

Lannes enlisted in the second battalion of the volunteers of Gers, and was at once elected sub-lieutenant by his fellow-citizens.

Those who were in office more than four years were re-elected for a second term.

John Hancock elected president of congress; he succeeded Peyton Randolph in that office.

If these gentlemen had thought to avoid slippery ground, they should have elected to appoint the meeting elsewhere.