elected

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For decades, elected officials have not had to focus on the film and TV business, let alone turn it into a campaign issue.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

She won a special election for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District in 2021 after her husband, a newly elected representative, died in 2020 from complications related to Covid-19 before his swearing in.

From BBC • May 17, 2026

The first pope from the United States, elected in May 2025, will notably travel to Paris for a visit to the headquarters of the United Nations' culture agency UNESCO, the Vatican said in a statement.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

New measures had been introduced, including legislation to better protect councillors' home addresses and police forces providing safety advice to elected officials, but more needed to be done, he said.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

In fact, before Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, ten of the first fifteen American presidents owned enslaved people or grew up in slaveholding households.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis