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Earl Benjamin Nelson (born May 17, 1941) is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 37th governor of Nebraska from 1991 to 1999 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 2001 to 2013.
The 2006 United States Senate election in Nebraska was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democrat Ben Nelson won re-election to a second term, easily defeating Republican Pete Ricketts . Nelson won 63.9% of the vote to Ricketts's 36.1% Ricketts was later appointed in January 2023 to Nebraska's other Senate seat after serving as Governor of ...
Nebraska was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1867, and elects its United States senators to class 1 and class 2. George W. Norris was the state’s longest serving senator (served 1913–1943). Nebraska's current senators are Republicans Deb Fischer (since 2013) and Pete Ricketts (since 2023).
But the unexpected close race in Nebraska made life a bit more difficult for the Senate GOP in a state that hasn't had a non-Republican U.S. senator since 2013, when Democrat Ben Nelson retired ...
Why Republicans Are Suddenly Scrambling To Save A Senate Seat – In Nebraska, Of All Places. ... including the late former Rep. Brad Ashford and former Sen. Ben Nelson, were fiscally conservative ...
The 2012 United States Senate election in Nebraska took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic senator Ben Nelson chose to retire instead of seeking a third ...
Democrats, who have an unbelievably difficult Senate map to defend this year, know the drill in Nebraska. Ben Nelson was the most recent Democrat to win a Senate race in the state, but that was in ...
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey retired after two terms in office, and Democrat Ben Nelson, a former two-term governor, won the open seat. Ben Nelson won the election despite Republican nominee George Walker Bush winning the state in the concurrent presidential election. This is the last time that Nebraska voted for a Senate ...