QUESTIONS:
1. Former Sen. Bob Smith (R.-N.H.) is now seeking the Republican nomination for U.S. senator from Florida. Who was the last person who represented two states in the Senate?
2. Who was the only person in U.S. history to represent three states in the Senate?
3. Who was the last former senator to attempt to win a Senate seat in another state?
4. Who was the last former U.S. House member to have represented districts in two different states?
5. Who was the last former House member to try to represent a House district in another state?
ANSWERS:
1. Waitman Thomas Willey, who switched from representing Virginia to West Virginia in 1863, when a large chunk of Virginia was severed and it joined the union as West Virginia.
2. James Shields, who represented Illinois (1848-54), Minnesota (1858-59), and Missouri in 1879.
3. Former Republican Sen. Bill Brock, who represented Tennessee from 1970-76 and was the losing GOP nominee for the Senate from Maryland in 1994.
4. Republican Ed Foreman, U.S. representative from Texas from 1962-64 and then from New Mexico from 1968-70. Both times, he was defeated for re-election.
5. Republican Mark Siljander, U.S. representative from Michigan from 1981-86, who lost the GOP primary for Congress from a Northern Virginia district in 1992.
OOPS! In the January 5 I.Q., we asked how many senators had served longer than Republican Ted Stevens, who became senator from Alaska in 1968, and gave as the answer two Democrats: Robert C. Byrd (Va.), who came to the Senate in 1958, and Edward Kennedy (Mass.), who was first elected in 1962. Al Cobb of Northern Virginia, the "Evil-Eye Fleagle" of Human Events subscribers, writes to remind us that Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D.-Hawaii) has served longer than Stevens. Like Kennedy, Inouye came to the Senate in 1962.
