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Article: SENATE SEAT WAS OFTEN THE HOT SEAT HOST OF COLORFUL CHARACTERS HAVE HELD THE POST SINCE 1876.(News)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2004
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Byline: Kevin Flynn, Rocky Mountain News
Senate candidates Pete Coors and Ken Salazar, native sons of Colorado, come from pioneer families with deep roots in the state.
But chances are, their battle for the seat held by retiring Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell won't come close to matching the shameless political shenanigans their forebears witnessed.
The Rocky Mountain News assembled a pedigree of the state's two U.S. Senate seats and the 32 men who've held them since statehood in 1876.
It showed Campbell's seat has a more colorful history - turnover, party-switching, controversy and death - than the relatively stable seat occupied by ...