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There was a vacancy in one of the United States senatorships from Mississippi, and Davis was appointed to fill it.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

Of the other candidates for the senatorships on that ticket, four were men and one a woman.

From Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates by Johnson, Helen Kendrick

Secretly and decorously our senatorships and the ancient orders of our knighthood are assigned.

From Stand Up, Ye Dead by Maclean, Norman

United States senatorships bother them not a whit.

From The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) by Nearing, Scott