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1980 United States Senate Election In Nevada
The 1980 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 4, 1980. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt won re-election to a second term. As of , this is the last time that the Republicans have won the Class 3 Senate seat from Nevada. 42 years later Laxalt's grandson and former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt would run to take this senate seat in 2022, but narrowly lost to incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto. Major candidates Democratic * Mary Gojack, former State Senator (1974–1978) and former State Assemblywoman (1972–1974) Republican * Paul Laxalt, incumbent U.S. Senator since 1974 and former Governor (1967–1971) Results See also * 1980 United States Senate elections References {{United States elections, 1980 Nevada 1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positio ...
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Paul Laxalt (colorized)
Paul Dominique Laxalt ( ; August 2, 1922 – August 6, 2018) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd List of governors of Nevada, governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971 and a United States Senator, United States senator representing Nevada from 1974 until 1987. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics. After Reagan was elected President of the United States, president in 1980 United States presidential election, 1980, many in the national press referred to Laxalt as "the first friend". He was the older brother of writer Robert Laxalt and maternal grandfather of Adam Laxalt, who served as the 33rd Nevada Attorney General, attorney general of Nevada from 2015 to 2019. Early life, education, and early career Laxalt was born on August 2, 1922, in Reno, Nevada. He was the son of Basque people, Basque parents, Therese (née Alpetche) and Dominique Laxalt, who emigrated to the ...
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Paul Laxalt
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Mary Gojack
Mary Gojack (February 19, 1936 – November 12, 1985) was an American politician who served in the Nevada Assembly from 1972 to 1974 and in the Nevada Senate from 1974 to 1978. She died of cancer on November 12, 1985, in Reno, Nevada at the age of 49. References External linksMary L. Gojack Papers
Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gojack, Mary 1936 births 1985 deaths 20th-century American legislators Democratic Party members of the Nevada Assembly Democratic Party Nevada state senators 20th-century Nevada politicians ...
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ...
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Nevada Attorney General
The Nevada Attorney General is the chief legal officer for the U.S. state of Nevada. The functions of the office are set forth in Nevada Revised Statutes, Chapter 228. The Attorney General represents the people of Nevada in civil and criminal matters before trial, appellate and the supreme courts of Nevada and the United States. The Attorney General also serves as legal counsel to state officers and, with few exceptions, to state agencies, boards and commissions. The Attorney General may also work with or help district attorneys, local law enforcement, and federal and international criminal justice agencies in the administration of justice. In addition, the Attorney General establishes and operates projects and programs to protect Nevadans from fraud or illegal activities that target consumers or threaten public safety, and enforces laws that safeguard the environment and natural resources. Under the state Constitution, the Attorney General is elected to a four-year term. To meet ...
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Adam Laxalt
Adam Paul Laxalt (; born August 31, 1978) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 33rd Nevada Attorney General from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Nevada in 2018 and for the U.S. Senate in 2022. Laxalt is the son of former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico and grandson of former Nevada governor and U.S. senator Paul Laxalt. He graduated from Georgetown University and its law school before working as an aide to then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John R. Bolton and Virginia U.S. Senator John Warner. He worked as a lawyer in private practice and was a member of the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps from 2005 to 2010. Elected in 2014, Laxalt served one term as the attorney general of Nevada from 2015 to 2019. In that role, he filed legal briefs in support of laws restricting abortion, challenged federal environmental protection regulations, ...
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2022 United States Senate Election In Nevada
The 2022 United States Senate election in Nevada was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Nevada. In the election, incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto narrowly defeated her Republican challenger, former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt. Nevada's election results were slowed due to state law that allowed voters to submit mail-in ballots until November 12, and allowed voters to fix clerical problems in their mail-in ballots until November 14, 2022. According to exit polls, Cortez Masto won 62% of Latinos, 64% of young voters, and 52% of women. Cortez Masto made protecting abortion rights a central issue of her campaign. Many experts and forecasters saw Nevada as Republicans' best chance to pickup a seat in the Senate. Cortez Masto flipped Washoe County, improving her 2016 margin by 1.5%, although Laxalt improved on Joe Heck's margin in rural counties, and performed slightly better in Clark County. With a ...
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto (born March 29, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Nevada, a seat she has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Cortez Masto served as the 32nd attorney general of Nevada from 2007 to 2015. Cortez Masto graduated from University of Nevada, Reno and Gonzaga University School of Law. She worked four years as a civil attorney in Las Vegas and two years as a criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C. before being elected Nevada attorney general in 2006, replacing George Chanos. Reelected in 2010, she was not eligible to run for a third term in 2014 because of lifetime term limits established by the Constitution of Nevada. Cortez Masto narrowly defeated Republican Joe Heck in the 2016 United States Senate election in Nevada to replace outgoing Democratic senator Harry Reid, becoming the first woman elected to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first ...
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Governor Of Nevada
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' may be either appointed or elected, and the governor's powers can vary significantly, depending on the public laws in place locally. The adjective pertaining to a governor is gubernatorial, from the Latin root ''gubernare''. Ancient empires Pre-Roman empires Though the legal and administrative framework of provinces, each administrated by a governor, was created by the Romans, the term ''governor'' has been a convenient term for historians to describe similar systems in antiquity. Indeed, many regions of the pre-Roman antiquity were ultimately replaced by Roman 'standardized' provincial governments after their conquest by Rome. Plato used the metaphor of turning the Ship of State with a rudder; the Latin w ...
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1980 United States Senate Elections
The 1980 United States Senate elections coincided with Ronald Reagan's victory in the presidential election. Reagan's large margin of victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter gave a huge boost to Republican Senate candidates, allowing them to flip 12 Democratic seats and win control of the chamber for the first time since the end of the 83rd Congress in January 1955. This is the last time that a chamber of Congress changes hands in a presidential year until 2020. This is one of only five occasions where ten or more Senate seats changed hands in an election, with the others being in 1920, 1932, 1946, and 1958. As of 2022, this is the last time Republicans won a U.S. Senate election in Maryland. This is the earliest Senate election with a Senator that is still serving, that being Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Gains and losses The Republicans gained 12 seats from the Democrats to gain control of the Senate, 53–46–1, marking the first time since 1954 that the Republican Party con ...
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United States Senate Elections In Nevada
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