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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 ...
Former Senator Jim Inhofe, a Republican career politician and climate change denier, died on Tuesday at 89 years old, his family said in a statement.. For more than three decades, Inhofe ...
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 ...
James Mountain Inhofe (/ ˈ ɪ n h ɒ f /; INN-hoff; November 17, 1934 – July 9, 2024) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1994 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was the longest serving U.S. senator from Oklahoma. He served in various elected offices in the state of Oklahoma for ...
Date of death Age at death (years) Cause Place of death Place of burial John Lewis Democratic Georgia (5th district) July 17, 2020 80 Pancreatic cancer [32] Atlanta, Georgia: South-View Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia Ron Wright Republican Texas (6th district) February 7, 2021 67 COVID-19 [33] Dallas, Texas: Mount Olivet Cemetery, Fort Worth, Texas ...
In 1990, when he was only 27, Douglass, running as a Republican, was elected as the youngest State Senator to serve in Oklahoma. His signature legislation was a 1992 bill championing the rights of crime victims. He served from 1991-2003 representing district 40. He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House 6th district in a 1994 special election.
Oklahoma was admitted to the Union on November 16, 1907, and elects United States senators to class 2 and class 3. The state's current U.S. senators are Republicans James Lankford (serving since 2015) and Markwayne Mullin (serving since 2023). Oklahoma's longest-serving senator was Jim Inhofe, who served from 1994 to 2023.
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.