On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected president of the United ...

In 1888, Republican presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison won the electoral vote over incumbent Democrat Grover Cleveland, ...

Democratic victories in Virginia, New Jersey sweep elections as Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill win governorships, ...

In the face of Reagan’s right-wing presidency, he offered a vision, strategy, and agenda that would have led Democrats and ...

“We clearly have an antisemitism element of our party,” Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pa.) told JNS. “I think it’s a very small minority, but we have to confront it. It’s never in my opinion appropriate to ...

1948: The Tribune was on deadline. In the absence of election results, the newspaper assumed that New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) would sink incumbent Harry S. Truman (Democrat). He didn’t.

In the run-up to the 1984 presidential election, Ms. Collins was often described as a possible running mate for Walter Mondale, who wound up making Geraldine Ferraro the first woman on a major party’s ...

Former Kentucky governor Martha Layne Collins has died. A Democrat, Collins served as Kentucky's first female governor ...

LEXINGTON, Kentucky — Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman elected governor of Kentucky, died on Saturday. She was 88.

By Jack Brammer Kentucky Lantern Martha Layne Collins, who as the only woman to serve as governor of Kentucky revolutionized the state’s economy by landing Toyota Motor Manufacturing, died at 3 a.m.

Kentucky mourns the loss of former Gov. Martha Layne Collins, the state’s first and only female Governor. She was 88 years old.

I said the fact that the name of U.S. Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor was on the short list was window dressing, the sort of cynical ploy that liberals use to get credit for doing something when ...