Senate Duos

[Free Bird]

One thing that fascinates me is when two senators serve together for over 10 years. I know from experience that people in my state considered Dodd and Lieberman basically one person. Some prominent duos I can think of are

Specter and Santorum
Thurmond and Hollings
Dodd and Lieberman
Harkin and Grassley
Collins and Snowe
Byrd and J-Rock
Feinstein and Boxer

Has your state ever had the same senators for a long time? I know this is an odd topic, but I was wondering how the perception of a long serving pair differs from seats that switch around periodically.

[ElectionsGuy]

Wisconsin had Kohl/Feingold for 18 years (1992-2010).

[Free Bird]

Wisconsin had Kohl/Feingold for 18 years (1992-2010).

Were they thought of any differently in the public eye?

[ElectionsGuy]

Wisconsin had Kohl/Feingold for 18 years (1992-2010).

Were they thought of any differently in the public eye?

I have no idea since I didn't know anything about politics until 2011/2012-ish. The only thing I know is that Feingold is most well known for being the only No vote on the Patriot Act.

[Dixie Reborn]

Alabama has had Shelby and Sessions serving together for 18 years now.

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I know Snowe and Collins supposedly irritated each other.

Akaka and Inouye were another long-serving duo, but the former could never quite escape the all-encompassing reach of the latter.

I do find the personal relationships between politicians quite fascinating. Perhaps it's my replacement for watching soaps.

[Free Bird]

I know Snowe and Collins supposedly irritated each other.

Akaka and Inouye were another long-serving duo, but the former could never quite escape the all-encompassing reach of the latter.

I do find the personal relationships between politicians quite fascinating. Perhaps it's my replacement for watching soaps.

I think that's it for me. Where did you hear about Snowe and Collins irritating each other? In her farewell address to her, Collins explicitly called Snowe her "friend" multiple times.

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I know Snowe and Collins supposedly irritated each other.

Akaka and Inouye were another long-serving duo, but the former could never quite escape the all-encompassing reach of the latter.

I do find the personal relationships between politicians quite fascinating. Perhaps it's my replacement for watching soaps.

I think that's it for me. Where did you hear about Snowe and Collins irritating each other? In her farewell address to her, Collins explicitly called Snowe her "friend" multiple times.

The nicer a woman is to another woman when everyone's watching, the more viscerally she hates her.

[SNJ1985]

Walter F. George and Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia served alongside each other for almost 24 years.

[muon2]

When I was in college a MN special election in 1978 brought a pair of GOP Senators into office together, Rudy Boschwitz and Dave Durenberger. Both were sworn in ahead of their class during the lame duck period after the election. They served together until Jan 1991 when Wellstone replaced Boschwitz. Because of their simultaneous arrival they were often viewed as a tandem.

[TJ in Oregon]

Wisconsin had Kohl/Feingold for 18 years (1992-2010).

Were they thought of any differently in the public eye?

I have no idea since I didn't know anything about politics until 2011/2012-ish. The only thing I know is that Feingold is most well known for being the only No vote on the Patriot Act.

Kohl and Feingold were quite different ideologically. Kohl was something of a generic D who most of the Republicans even liked while Feingold was more of an anti-establishment left type who people were more polarized about.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Ah yes, Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, the longest serving junior senator in US Senate history.

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Ah yes, Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, the longest serving junior senator in US Senate history.

Brian Schatz became the senior Senator after 8 days.

It looks like the last time 2 Senators from the same state took office at the same time was when Hawaii was admitted. The last time other than a state being admitted might be November 4 , 1936 when Florida had 2 non-incumbent special elections.

[KingSweden]

Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell are often regarded as one and the same, though Cantwell for some reason seems to draw a lot more support in the eastern half of WA than Murray does and is regarded as more moderate (I myself have never seen much diff between the two).

[Miles]

Allen Ellender/Russell Long ('48-'72) were about as badass a duo as it gets.

[JerryArkansas]

I have to go with Arkansas Senators John McClellan and James Fulbright (45-75)

[TDAS04]

Not really for a long time.  We've had 3 duos that served together for 10 years each:  Mundt and McGovern, Daschle and Pressler, and Johnson and Thune.  (The last one will end now with Johnson's retirment.)  South Dakota doesn't like senators to stay for too long.

Of course, there's North Dakota.  Democratic Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, along with Democratic Representative Earl Pomeroy, served together as the state's entire congressional delegation for 18 years.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned any Mississippi duos yet, such as Eastland and Stennis.

[Free Bird]

Wow I did some research and apparently Snowe and Collins DO have beef. It's described as "wintry." Now I'm just imagining them giving each other those tense looking anime staredowns.

[Miles]

^ They were both always held up as leading moderate Republicans, which I think would have created ego issues between them.

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Feinstein and Boxer are another pair of frenemies, but with more of an idealogical opposition. Before they were elected to the Senate in the same year, they would almost without fail endorse each others opponents. Feinstein's intervention in Boxer's 2010 campaign was very uncharacteristic of what is apparently a cold and distant relationship.

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As for Vermont's Senators, I wonder if the 1974 Senate election has had any affect on their relationship.

The first Democratic Senator from Vermont: 49%
A losing Republican from Vermont: 46%
Some hopeless 3rd party candidate who will never ever get something like 71% of the vote in a future Senate election: 4%

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=50&year=1974&f=0&off=3