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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 ...
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 was Oklahoma’s longest serving senator, serving for 28 years before he retired. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
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 ...
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.
Charles Ford (August 2, 1931 – September 1, 2021) was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1966 to 1982 and the Oklahoma Senate from 1982 to 2005. Ford holds the record as the longest serving Republican member of the Oklahoma Legislature . [ 1 ]
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.
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.