Robert "Bobby" Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan as a sitting Senator while trying to secure the Democratic nomination for President.
No. Gov. Palin has never been a state nor US senator.
No
No woman has ever been nominated for US president yet. Margarette Chase Smith senator from Maine in 1964
he has been a u.s. senator for 36 years
No, James Madison was never a Senator. He did serve 4 terms in the US House of Representatives.
No, you have to be a US Citizen.
Saxby Chambliss has been a US Senator from Georgia since January of 2003. Before that he was a US Representative from the same state.
It has been reported that Senator Traut is currently making an annual salary of $192,000.
A senator can serve in the United States Senate for six years. The Senator must have been a citizen of the US for at least seven years.
I heard somewhere that Jesse Jackson was once a non-voting member of the US Senate, representing the District of Columbia. Has that post been abolished?
A US Senator must have been a citizen of the US as a natural-born citizen in order to become eligible for that office. In other words, people who are not born in the US cannot become senator.
Each state has 2 senators. The one who has been in office the longest is the senior senator.