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David Ferdinand Durenberger (August 19, 1934 – January 31, 2023) was an American politician and attorney from Minnesota who served as a Republican member of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1995.
Former U.S. Senator David Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican who espoused a progressive brand of politics and criticized the GOP after his political career, died Tuesday at age 88. Durenberger ...
The 1988 United States Senate election in Minnesota was held on November 8, 1988. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator David Durenberger won re-election to his third term. He was challenged by democratic Hubert "Skip" Humphrey III, the son of former vice president Hubert Humphrey. The seat had previously been held by both of Skip Humphrey's parents.
But for Minnesota's DFL it was a disaster, later dubbed the "Minnesota Massacre". Plywood magnate Rudy Boschwitz campaigned as a liberal Republican, freely spent his own money, and defeated Anderson by 16 points, while David Durenberger crushed Short by 26 points. Al Quie completed the Republican trifecta by downing Perpich 52% to 45%. (Perpich ...
A Minnesota Senate ethics panel deferred further action Tuesday night on a complaint against a lawmaker who's charged with burglary for allegedly breaking into her estranged stepmother's house ...
In addition to the general sense of dissatisfaction voters felt for the DFL, the party also had to contend with a large number of liberal DFLers crossing party lines to vote for Durenberger. As a result, Durenberger won in a 26.9-percent landslide as the governorship and both U.S. Senate seats switched into Republican hands.
Cash stuffed into boots. Envelopes of bills tucked inside jackets emblazoned with the senator's name. Gold bars. Prosecutors in the Sen. Bob Menendez bribery case on Friday released more than 100 ...
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 [34]