The 1996 United States Senate election in Georgia was the first election after the retirement of the current co-chair of what organization?
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United States Senate election in Georgia, 1996 The 1996 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democratic United States Senator Sam Nunn decided to retire instead of seeking a fifth term. The Republican Party nominated Guy Millner, a multi-millionaire businessman who was also the unsuccessful candidate that ran against Zell Miller in the 1994 gubernatorial election. Millner emerged as the victor from a crowded 6-person primary in July 1996. However, Max Cleland, the Secretary of State of Georgia ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.
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Sam Nunn Samuel Augustus Nunn Jr. (born September 8, 1938) is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a charitable organization working to prevent catastrophic attacks with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a United States Senator from Georgia (1972 until 1997) as a member of the Democratic Party. His political experience and credentials on national defense reportedly made him a potential running mate for Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry (2004) and Barack Obama (2008).
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Higher Education Committee (Georgia Senate) The Senate Higher Education Committee is a nine-member legislative body consisting of a chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary, and six members. The Committee operates under a Senate mandate to consider legislation that affects institutions of higher learning throughout the state.
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Public Safety Committee (Georgia Senate) The Senate Public Safety Committee is an eight member legislative body consisting of a chairman, a vice-chairman, a secretary, and five members. The Committee operates under a Senate mandate to regulate all aspects involving the security and well-being of Georgia's citizens and to employ mitigating efforts to protect them from physical violence and other dangerous perils.
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Bob Dole Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is an American lawyer and politician who represented Kansas in Congress from 1961 to 1996 and served as the Republican Leader of the United States Senate from 1985 until 1996. He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election and the party's vice presidential nominee in the 1976 presidential election.
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Curtis S. Person, Jr. Curtis S. Person, Jr. (born November 27, 1934) was an American politician and a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 31st district, which is composed of part of Shelby County. He initially served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1966 to 1968 as a Democrat but shortly after switched parties, before serving in the state senate from 1968 until 2006. He served as the chair of the Judiciary Committee and as a member on the Ethics Committee and the General Welfare, Health and Human Resources Committee.
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Frank Fahrenkopf Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. (born August 28, 1939) is an American lawyer, politician, and lobbyist who was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1983 to 1989. Fahrenkopf is co-founder, and currently co-chairman, of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which conducts the United States general election presidential and vice presidential debates. In the private sector, Fahrenkopf most recently served as the American Gaming Association's first president, and retired from the position in 2013.
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Robert Georgine Robert Georgine (born July 18, 1932) is a retired labor union activist and leader in the United States, and the former president, chairman and chief executive officer of the Union Labor Life Insurance Company.
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Lindsey Graham presidential campaign, 2016 The 2016 presidential campaign of Lindsey Graham, the longtime senior United States Senator from South Carolina, and former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district was announced on June 1, 2015. His candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election began at an event in his hometown of Central, South Carolina. On December 21, 2015, Graham announced the suspension of his campaign.
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Kent C. Nelson Kent C. (Oz) Nelson is an American businessman who is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Parcel Service, a position he held from November 1989 to December 1996. He now lives in Atlanta, GA.
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Thomas R. Donahue Thomas Reilly Donahue (born September 4, 1928), who has served as Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995, President in 1995, and President Emeritus since 1996, is one of the most influential leaders of the post-World War II American trade union movement.
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Vermont gubernatorial election, 1996 The Vermont gubernatorial election of 1996 took place on November 5, 1996. Incumbent Democrat Howard Dean ran successfully for re-election to a third full term as Governor of Vermont, defeating Republican candidate John L. Gropper.
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United States Senate election in Georgia, 1986 The 1986 United States Senate election in Georgia was held on November 8, 1986. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Mack Mattingly decided to run for re-election and lost a close race to Wyche Fowler.
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United States Senate election in Mississippi, 1996 United States Senate election in Mississippi, 1996
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United States Senate election in Montana, 1996 The 1996 United States Senate election in Montana took place on November 5, 1996. Incumbent United States Senator Max Baucus, who was first elected in 1978 and was re-elected in 1984 and 1990, ran for re-election. He was unopposed in the Democratic primary, and moved on to the general election, where he faced a stiff challenge in Denny Rehberg, the Lieutenant Governor of Montana and the Republican nominee. Despite Bob Dole's victory over Bill Clinton and Ross Perot in the state that year in the presidential election, Baucus managed to narrowly win re-election over Rehberg to secure a fourth term in the Senate.
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Thomas M. Reynolds Thomas M. Reynolds (born September 3, 1950), commonly known as Tom Reynolds, is a politician from the U.S. state of New York, formerly representing the state's 27th and 26th Congressional districts in the United States House of Representatives. He is best known as the engineer of historic losses in his capacity at Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Reynolds was chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, the official Republican House campaign organization, for the 2006 election cycle. He retired amid scandal at the end of the 110th Congress. Chris Lee was elected to succeed him.
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Mack Mattingly Mack Francis Mattingly (born January 7, 1931) is an American diplomat and politician who served one term as a United States senator from Georgia, the first Republican to serve in the U.S. Senate from that state since Reconstruction.
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United States Senate election in Idaho, 1998 The 1998 United States Senate election in Idaho took place on November 3, 1998 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Dirk Kempthorne decided to retire after one term to run for governor. Republican nominee Mike Crapo won the open seat.
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Buck McKeon Howard Philip "Buck" McKeon (born September 9, 1938) is a former U.S. Representative, serving from 1993–2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was a former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history. Since his election to the House of Representatives in 1990, he has caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to congressional committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously been chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee for two years.
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Eric Johnson (Georgia politician) Eric Johnson (born August 20, 1953) is an American politician that served in the Georgia State Senate representing the 1st District. The 1st Senate District comprises Bryan, Chatham and Liberty Counties. He recently resigned his Senate seat after 17 years in the Georgia General Assembly. He was a candidate for Governor of Georgia, looking to succeed term-limited Sonny Perdue in 2010.
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James C. Miller III James Clifford "Jim" Miller III (born June 25, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former U.S. government official and economist who served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission between 1981 and 1985 and as Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan between 1985 and 1988. He also ran for United States Senate in Virginia, losing the Republican nomination at the convention to Oliver North in 1994 and losing the nomination in the primary to John Warner in 1996.