What is State Senator?
A '''state senator''' is a member of a state's [[Senate]], the [[upper house]] in the [[bicameral]] [[legislature]] of 49 [[U.S. state]]s, or a [[legislator]] in [[Nebraska]]'s [[unicameral|one house]] [[Nebraska Legislature|State Legislature]]. There are usually fewer state senators than there are members in a state's [[lower house]]. In the past, this meant that senators represented different regions within a state, not according to the population of the region. This was a way of balancing the power of the lower house, where the numbers for each state were related to the state's population. In 1963, the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] ruled that state legislatures must give seats in both houses depending on the population of the state.<ref>See ''[[Gray v. Sanders]]'', 372 U.S. 368 (1963)</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{multistub|US|politics}} [[Category:United States senators]]