What is "senatorship"

Usage examples of "senatorship".

During the canvass of 1858 for the senatorship my belief was, and still is, that I had no more sincere and faithful friend than Mr.

In 1855 he withdrew from the contest for the United States Senatorship in favor of Mr.

Pickering had been chosen to fill a vacancy in the other Massachusetts senatorship, and appeared upon the scene as a most unwelcome colleague.

The son of John Adams lost the senatorship for persistently supporting the administration of Thomas Jefferson.

Two of his lifelong friends were rival candidates for the senatorship from Maine, and each had expressed the hope that the old Squire would aid him in his canvass.

Wyndham Weatherton had won the senatorship of a Midwestern state, partly due to the astute management of Ward Hiller.

Douglas would choose to secure the Senatorship by pleasing the Democrats of Illinois, many of whom were opposed to slavery, Lincoln was wise in his prediction concerning the effect on the campaign of 1860 for President.

Lincoln lost the Senatorship but won the Presidency by this series of speeches.

Revised Statutes of nine-teen eighty-sevenif a senatorship is vacated by death with more than half of the unexpired term remaining a special election must be held at a date to be set before the next session of Congress.

Nye was certain to get a Senatorship, and Orion was so sure to get the Secretaryship that no one but him was named for that office.

How, if not wisdom and authority, but turbulence and low vice are to exalt to senatorships miscreants reeking with the odors and pollution of the hell, the prize-ring, the brothel, and the stock-exchange, where gambling is legalized and rascality is laudable?