QUESTIONS:
1. There has been increasing discussion in the press over who might succeed John Kerry in the Senate if he were elected President. Who was the last appointed senator from Massachusetts?
2. At least four Democratic House members are considered potential candidates for the Senate if Kerry should leave his seat. Who was the last House member from Massachusetts to be elected senator?
3. There has also been talk that Republican Gov. Mitt Romney would run for an open Senate seat. Who was the last former governor of Massachusetts to have served in the Senate?
4. Since 1952, two senators from Massachusetts have met defeat at the polls??¢â???¬ ¦quot;both of them Republican. Can you name them?
5. Anticipating Kerry??¢â???¬â???¢s election as President, several Democrats in the Massachusetts legislature are pushing a bill to strip Gov. Romney of the power to fill vacancies in the Senate by appointment and force him to call an immediate special election instead. What two other states have an immediate election rather than gubernatorial appointment for Senate vacancies?
ANSWERS:
1. Democrat Benjamin Smith, II appointed to fill John Kennedy??¢â???¬â???¢s Senate seat after he was elected President in 1960.
2. Democrat Paul Tsongas in 1978.
3. Republican Gov. Leverett Saltonstall, who served as senator from 1944-66.
4. Henry Cabot Lodge, beaten by JFK in 1952, and Edward W. Brooke, beaten by Tsongas in 1978.
5. Oregon and Wisconsin.
