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Recorded September 23, 2010. John Eric Ensign (born March 25, 1958) is an American veterinarian and former politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 2001 until his resignation in 2011 amid a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into his attempts to hide an extramarital affair.
The John Ensign scandal related to revelations in 2009 of an extramarital affair between United States Senator John Ensign from Nevada and campaign aide Cynthia Hampton from 2007 to 2008 and actions taken by Ensign to keep the affair secret. He was investigated for potential violations of federal rules about conflict of interest after he ...
The 2000 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Democrat Richard Bryan decided to retire instead of seeking a third term. Republican nominee John Ensign won the open seat. John Ensign defeated Ed Bernstein in a landslide despite George W. Bush carrying the state by a very narrow margin in the concurrent ...
Serving since (in the House/Senate) Date of birth Place of birth U.S. Congress John H. Bankhead Democratic Alabama : March 1, 1920 77 Myocarditis, [109] influenza [110] Washington, D.C. Oak Hill Cemetery, Jasper, Alabama: B. B. Comer: June 11, 1907 (U.S. House tenure March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1907) September 13, 1842 Marion County, Alabama: 66th
Senator John Porter East of Springfield, Illinois, but later of Greenville, North Carolina, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in what was later ruled to be a suicide. ^ "Rep. George M. O'Brien Dies At 69 in U.S. Cancer Institute". The New York Times. July 18, 1986.
Results. On November 3, 1998, Reid won by 401 votes in an exceptionally close election—even closer than South Dakota in 2002, when incumbent Senator Tim Johnson defeated Congressman John Thune by 524 votes. Ensign did not contest the results, and was elected to Nevada's other Senate seat in 2000, succeeding the retiring Richard Bryan and ...
Two of them, Senator John Ensign, chairman of the Republican Policy Committee in the Senate and the fourth-ranking member in his party's Senate leadership, and South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, immediate past chair of the Republican Governors Association and U.S. representative from 1995 to 2001, were considering running for president in ...
The 2006 United States Senate elections were held on November 7, 2006, with all 33 Class 1 Senate seats being contested. The term of office for those elected in 2006 ran from January 3, 2007, to January 3, 2013. Before the election cycle, the Republican Party controlled 55 of the 100 Senate seats.