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Fairfax was once considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, after he was elected Virginia’s lieutenant governor in 2017, making him only the second African American elected to statewide office.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2026

Assuming local residents can prevent their elected officials from spending the entire windfall from new data centers, the residents benefit too in the form of modest property tax bills and higher home values.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

And he’s not an anonymous creep on the internet; he’s a 45-year-old elected member of Congress running for governor of California.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

It is his second major foreign visit since being elected to the papacy last year, and reflects the importance of Catholicism in Africa.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 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