congressman-at-large

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the US) a member of the House of Representatives who was elected by the voters of an entire state as opposed to the voters of a single Congressional district

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There, I snapped more pictures as Kennedy talked up the governor as well as Neil Staebler who was running for congressman-at-large. (The 1960 census gave Michigan an additional congressional seat, but a new district had yet to be created.) I turned my camera on the crowd and photographed housewives, students, and downtown office workers eager for a glimpse of out nation's leader.

When Kennedy came to town

We have raked the old ash heap of failure in the state and found an old human hoop-skirt who has failed as a businessman, who has failed as an editor, who has failed as a preacher, and we are going to run him for Congressman-at-Large."

The fever swamps of Kansas: a leftist tries to make sense of grassroots conservatism

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