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Honoring Sen. Jim Inhofe. The passing of one of Oklahoma’s greatest senators marks an end of an era. Sen. Jim Inhofe's contributions to our state are incalculable. Throughout his time in ...
James Mountain Inhofe was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on November 17, 1934, the son of Blanche (née Mountain) and Perry Dyson Inhofe. [2] He moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, after his father became president of the National Mutual Casualty company in August 1942. [3]
Former Sen. Jim Inhofe, a conservative known for his strong support of defense spending and his denial that human activity is responsible for the bulk of climate change, has died. Inhofe, a ...
Inhofe was elected at age 31 to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1966, then to the state Senate three years later. He mounted failed bids for governor and the U.S. House before serving as ...
Inhofe claimed Rice was “too liberal” for Oklahoma and ran television ads that critics said contained anti-gay overtones, including one that showed a wedding cake topped by two plastic grooms and a photo of Rice as a young man wearing a leather jacket. Inhofe’s bullish personality also was apparent outside politics.
Inhofe had been in the Senate since late 1994 and is the longest-serving U.S. senator in Oklahoma history. Oklahoma's former US Sen. Jim Inhofe, known for climate, infrastructure stances, dies at ...
Shortly after the approval of the Inhofe amendment, the Senate voted for another bill by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.), according to which English is the "common unifying language of the United States," but mandated that nothing in that declaration "shall diminish or expand any existing rights" regarding multilingual services. It passed 58–39.
The 1994 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma was held November 8, 1994 in the wake of incumbent Democratic Senator David Boren's impending resignation to become President of the University of Oklahoma.