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Russell Dana Feingold (/ ˈ f aɪ n ɡ oʊ l d / FYNE-gold; born March 2, 1953) is an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States Senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party , he was its nominee in the 2016 election for the same U.S. Senate seat he had previously occupied. [ 1 ]
Senate Minority Whip: Dick Durbin: IL: January 3, 2025 Party whip since January 3, 2005: Chair of the Senate Democratic Steering and Policy Committee: Amy Klobuchar: MN: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Democratic Strategic Communications Committee: Cory Booker: NJ: January 3, 2025: Vice Chairs of the Senate Democratic Caucus: Mark Warner ...
Its current U.S. senators are Republican Ron Johnson (since 2011) and Democrat Tammy Baldwin (since 2013), making it one of four states to have a split United States Senate delegation. William Proxmire was the state's longest serving senator (served 1957–1989).
In December 2014, the Washington Post rated Johnson the most vulnerable incumbent U.S. senator in the 2016 election cycle. [24] In May 2015, Feingold announced that he would run to win the Senate seat back. [25] In the November 8 general election, Johnson was reelected with 50.2% of the vote. [26]
Incumbent Senator Russ Feingold won re-election to a third term. As of 2024, this is the last time Democrats won the Class 3 Senate seat from Wisconsin. Russ Feingold defeated Tim Michels in a landslide despite John Kerry narrowly winning Wisconsin over Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush in the concurrent presidential election.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Democratic Senator Russ Feingold lost re-election to a fourth term to Republican challenger Ron Johnson, a businessman and first-time candidate. [1] Johnson was the first Republican to win a Senate election in Wisconsin since 1986. Feingold also became ...
The 2016 United States Senate election in Wisconsin was held November 8, 2016, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Wisconsin, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Senator George W. Norris (1861–1944), Republican and independent from Nebraska; Governor and Senator Hiram Johnson (1866–1945), Republican and Progressive from California; Senator Robert F. Wagner (1877–1953), Democrat from New York; President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), Democratic president from 1933 to 1945