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Ben Nighthorse Campbell (born April 13, 1933) is an American politician who represented Colorado's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and was a United States Senator from Colorado from 1993 to 2005.
The 1992 United States Senate election in Colorado was held on November 3, 1992. Incumbent Democrat Tim Wirth decided to retire instead of seeking a second term. The open seat was won by Democratic nominee Ben Nighthorse Campbell, who later switched parties in 1995 and was re-elected as a Republican in 1998.
He faced a primary challenger, but won with over 70% of the vote. In the general election, Democratic nominee Dottie Lamm criticized Campbell of flip flopping from being a moderate liberal to moderate conservative. [2] [3] In fact, throughout the entire campaign, Lamm mostly sent out negative attack advertisements about Campbell. [4]
Political operative Bob Mulholland disrupted a campaign appearance with a large poster advertising a strip club ... Ben Nighthorse Campbell : 117,634 : 45.48% ...
The district was represented from 1987 to 1993 by Ben Nighthorse Campbell before he ran for the U.S. Senate and switched parties from Democratic to Republican. The district's former representative Scott Tipton lost renomination in 2020 to Lauren Boebert in what was considered a major upset. [4]
Colorado 3: Ben Nighthorse Campbell retired to run for U.S. Senator. Delaware at-large: Tom Carper retired to run for governor. Florida 3: Charles E. Bennett retired. Florida 16: Lawrence J. Smith retired. Florida 17: William Lehman retired. Florida 19: Dante Fascell retired. Georgia 1: Lindsay Thomas retired. Georgia 9: Ed Jenkins retired.
Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe and a jeweler testified at a congressional hearing in 2017 about the benefits and shortcomings of the law administered ...
In 1998 she won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate from Colorado, but lost in the general election to incumbent Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell. [11] Lamm was selected as one of Time Magazine's "200 Young Leaders of America" in 1974, [12] and won the Christian Science Monitor "Peace 2020" essay in 1985.