United States Senate Election, Expulsion, and Censure Cases, 1793-1990: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

United States Senate Election, Expulsion, and Censure Cases, 1793-1990, credited to Anne M. Butler; Wendy Wolff, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of United States Senate Election, Expulsion, and Censure Cases, 1793-1990 by Anne M. Butler; Wendy Wolff. Read in English by Joanne Turner Article I, section 5, of the United States Constitution gives each house of Congress power to judge the elections, returns, and qualifications of its members, and to punish members for "disorderly behavior." Between 1793 and 1990, more than 200 senators faced challenges to their credentials based on their qualifications for office and alleged irregularities in their elections; or discipline for offenses ranging from public corruption, to giving aid and comfort to the Confederacy, to bringing dishonor upon the Senate in myriad other ways, or for pure political spite. As researched and written by staff of the Congressional Research Service, these are their stories. The arc of the book, each case told in chronological order, traces not only the tenor and politics of the times, but the evolution of the Senate's own thinking about what it means to be a United States Senator. - Summary by Joanne Turner.

Recording facts

• Recording title: United States Senate Election, Expulsion, and Censure Cases, 1793-1990
• Author credits: Anne M. Butler; Wendy Wolff
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 143
• Listed recording duration: 22:51:51

Catalogue topics

• politics
• history
• government
• elections
• senate

Opening tracks: first 24 of 143

1. 001 - Introduction. I. Elections: Election laws, Senate election procedures and committees; types of election cases — 49:22
2. 002 - Introduction. II. Discipline: Procedures, laws, and committees; types of disciplinary cases — 16:50
3. 003 - Case 1. Albert Gallatin (PA) (1793-94) — 9:22
4. 004 - Case 2. Kensey Johns (DE) (1794) — 5:16
5. 005 - Case 3. Humphrey Marshall (KY) (1796) — 6:23
6. 006 - Case 4. William Blount and William Cocke (TN) (1796) — 7:09
7. 007 - Case 5. William Blount (TN) (1797) — 7:33
8. 008 - Case 6. Uriah Tracy (CT) (1801) — 3:41
9. 009 - Case 7. John Smith (OH) (1807-08) — 11:38
10. 010 - Case 8. Samuel Smith (MD) (1809) — 6:25
11. 011 - Case 9. Stanley Griswold (OH) (1809) — 3:50
12. 012 - Case 10. Timothy Pickering (MA) (1810-11) — 7:59
13. 013 - Case 11. Jesse Bledsoe (KY) (1815) — 4:26
14. 014 - Case 12. James Lanman (CT) (1825) — 6:41
15. 015 - Case 13. Ephraim Bateman (NJ) (1827-28) — 6:05
16. 016 - Case 14. Elisha R. Potter v. Asher Robbins (RI) (1833-34) — 7:58
17. 017 - Case 15. George Poindexter (MS) (1835) — 6:41
18. 018 - Case 16. Ambrose H. Sevier (AR) (1837) — 6:11
19. 019 - Case 17. John Ruggles (ME) (1838) — 4:39
20. 020 - Case 18. Benjamin Tapper (OH) 1844 — 6:33
21. 021 - Case 19. John M. Niles (CT) 1844 — 7:01
22. 022 - Case 20. John M. Clayton (DE); Spencer Jarnagin (TN); Walter T. Colquitt (GA) 1846 — 8:49
23. 023 - Case 21. James Shields (IL) 1849 — 8:04
24. 024 - Case 22. Thomas Hart Benton (MO) and Henry S. Foote (MS) 1850 — 7:39

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