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How to Address a Canadian Senator_Senator, Privy Counsellor_Envelope, official: _Senator the Honourable (Full name), PC (Address)_Letter salutation: Dear Senator (surname):_Senator, Not a Privy Counsellor_Envelope, official: _The Honourable (Full name), Senator (Address)_Letter salutation: Dear Senator (surname): FYI, here is what's come in to the Blog that relates to this office/rank. For recent questions sent in, check out Robert Hickey's Blog. For specific offices/ranks, check out Robert Hickey's On-Line Guide. How to Address Senators as Committee Members? How would you address two U.S. senators in a letter including their membership in their respective committees? They are not in one common committee. Also .... one senator is on two committees! I am especially interested how you would deal with their titles (one is a ranking member of a committee, the other is a ranking member of a subcommittee). Please provide an example. Thanks. -- Doug Dear Doug: Only information pertinent to a letter's content is included in an address and in the address block on the letter. So writing a single letter ... to two Senators ... on different committees ... and including their different committee affiliations is not making much sense to me. Membership to committees wouldn't be listed unless the letter's content was to them in regard to their work on the committee. I am thinking that if you were writing a letter on immigration, one Senator's membership on the Agriculture committee and the other Senator's membership on the Appropriations committee would not be pertinent. But ... perhaps the content is applicable somehow .... so .... address each as shown on on page 176 of my book in the form of a senator as a member of a committee: The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch Ranking Member The United States Senate Subcommittee on Health Care You will need to consider precedence in the order in which to present the names in the letter block ... and since the letter sound's like an open letter rather than a letter specifically to one or the other ..... order would be by date first elected to the Senate .... That is available at on Wikipedia. -- Robert Hickey How to Address a Former Senator and His Wife? What is the right way to address a card to a former Senator and his wife? -- VE at Aiport HillsDear VE: When addressing a Senator and his wife .. if they use the same surname. ..... the most formal is (e.g., how the White House would do it): The Honorable (full name) and Mrs. (surname) Address An on the salutation this is the most formal: Dear Senator (surname) and Mrs. (surname): What people often want to use ... is not horrible ... but is much less formal: Dear Senator and Mrs. (surname): The etiquette is that people who have official titles get their [title + name] all together as a unit and not broken up. If they use different surnames ... e.g., she's kept her own name ... write back ... there's a bit different way that's done. -- Robert Hickey How to Address Two Senators in a Salutation? On your website, you covered how to address two married Honorables, but in a letter if they are both Senators, would the salutation of the letter be as follows: Dear Senator Smith and Senator Smith, OR Dear Senators Smith, _-- Mary in Dallas_Dear Mary: In a salutation combining honorifics is typical; Dear Drs. Smith, Dear Professors Smith, Dear Pastors Smith, I don't imagine there are many Senators married to another Senator. Most formally each gets a full salutation, which might seem weird, but is actually correct: Dear Senator Smith and Senator Smith, An slightly less formal option would be: Dear Senators Smith, -- Robert Hickey How to List & Order - Current & Former Senators? We have an upcoming event next week at which both of our current U. S. Senators will be speaking as will one of our former U. S. Senators, a long-serving senator who retired last year. What is the proper way to differentiate between the current senators and retired senator in the printed program that will be made available to those attending that day? Is the situation different if a senator or member of congress is defeated in an election instead of retiring? This event, sponsored by the University, will be held at our local Air Force Base, so we have political, military, and academic protocol issues coming together at one event. We want to get things right. -- North Dakota Chairman Dear Dear Mr. Chairman: The forms of address for current and retired senators is the same ... so in the program you should differentiate between them with a modifying statement after their name: The Honorable Full Name Senator for North Dakota The Honorable Full Name Senator for North Dakota, 1990-2006 Precedence of current senators is the one elected first is first. Precedence of a former is with, but after any current. Former senators .... retired or defeated ... continue to use the same forms of address. Exception is a senator who was removed from office: he or she would no longer be addressed as The Honorable. I cover all this in my book if this sort of thing comes up often. Just in case you haven't, that local Air Force Base you mention has a Protocol Officer with whom you should be coordinating all this. I don't know who is the current head of protocol at Ellsworth AFB, but plenty of USAF Protocol Officers are grads of The Protocol School of Washington, so it's likely they use my book. -- Robert Hickey How to Address an US Senator Who is a "Dr."? How do I address an envelope to a couple? I know she uses "Mrs. (his name)"; He is a doctor and also a US Senator? -- Mrs. Justine ShumanDear Mrs. Shuman: "Senator" is higher office than "Dr." ... and in the US our tradition is that we only give one honorific/courtesy title at a time ... and we give the highest one the person is entitled to use. So a Senator who is a Dr. and his wife would be as follows Envelope: The Honorable Henry Wilson and Mrs. Wilson (Address) Salutation: Dear Senator Wilson and Mrs. Wilson: However, there are some individuals who have a different preference. For example, Bill Frist, a US Senator from Tenessee preferred to be addressed in conversation as "Dr. Frist". While some would point out that there are only 100 Senators ... but there are perhaps a million doctors ... and it would note his greater achievement being a "Senator." BUT it was not his preference ... so everyone addressed him as "Dr. Frist" But other Senators who were also medical doctors or who held academic doctorates .... all continued to be addressed as "Senator (surname)". So the rules remain the same ... but we address each person as they prefer to be addresses .... and the rules remain. -- Robert Hickey

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