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1972 US Senate Results
Tomorrow I leave from Jordan, and will be radio silent for about two weeks, so here's a little treat to tide you all over.
United States Senate Elections, 1972

Vermont (Class I): Robert Stafford (Republican) def. R. T. Major (Democratic), Bernie Sanders (Liberty Union)
REPUBLICAN HOLD
Georgia (Class 2): Sam Nunn (Democratic) def. S. F. Thompson (Republican)
DEMOCRATIC HOLD

Alabama: John Sparkman (Democratic) def. Win Blount (Republican), John LeFlore (National Democratic)
Alaska: Ted Stevens (Republican) def. Gene Guess (Democratic)
Arkansas: John McClellan (Democratic) def. Wayne H. Babbitt (Republican)
Colorado: Floyd Haskell (Democratic) def. Gordon L. Allott (Republican)
Delaware: J. Caleb Boggs (Republican) def. Joseph R. Biden (Democratic)*

Idaho: William E. "Bud" Davis (Democratic) def. James A. McClure (Republican)*
Illinois: Charles H. "Chuck" Percy (Republican) def. Roman Pucinski (Democratic)
Iowa: Dick Clark (Democratic)
def. Jack Miller (Republican)
Kansas: James B. Pearson (Republican) def. Arch Tetzlaf (Democratic)
Kentucky: Walter D. Huddleston (Democratic)
def. Louie Nunn (Republican)
Louisiana: John J. McKeithen (Democratic) def. Ben Toledano (Republican)*
Maine: William Hathaway (Democratic) def. Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)
Massachusetts: Ed Brooke (Republican) def. John J. Droney (Democratic)
Michigan: Frank J. Kelley (Democratic)
def. Robert P. Griffin (Republican)*
Minnesota: Walter Mondale (Democratic) def. Phil Hansen (Republican)
Mississippi: James Eastland (Democratic) def. Gil Carmichael (Republican)
Montana: Lee Metcalf (Democratic) def. Henry
Hibbard (Republican)
Nebraska: Carl Curtis (Republican) def. Terry Carpenter (Democratic)
New Hampshire: Thomas McIntyre (Democratic) def. Wesley Powell (Republican)
New Jersey: Clifford P. Case (Republican) def. Paul J. Krebs (Democratic)
New Mexico: Jack Daniels (Democratic) def. Pete Domenici (Republican)*
North Carolina: Nick Galafinakis (Democratic) def. Jesse Helms (Republican)*
Oklahoma: Dewey F. Bartlett (Republican)
def. Ed Edmondson (Democratic)
Oregon: Mark Hatfield (Republican) def. Wayne Morse (Democratic)
Rhode Island: Claiborne Pell (Democratic) def. John Chaffee (Republican)
South Carolina: Strom Thurmond (Republican) def. Eugene Ziegler (Democratic)
South Dakota: James Abourezk (Democratic)
def. Robert Hirsch (Republican)
Tennessee: Howard Baker (Republican) def. Ray Blanton (Democratic)
Texas: John Tower (Republican) def. Barefoot Sanders (Democratic)
Virginia: William B. Spong, Jr. (Democratic) def. William L. Scott (Republican)*
West Virginia: Jennings Randolph (Democratic) def. Louise Leonard (Republican)
Wyoming: Clifford Hansen (Republican) def. Mike Vinich (Democratic)

OVERALL DEMOCRATIC GAIN OF 6

PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE: George C. Wallace (D-AL)


PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE:
James Eastland (D-MS)
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: Mike Mansfield (D-MT)
SENATE MAJORITY WHIP: Robert Byrd (D-WV)


SENATE MINORITY LEADER: Hugh Scott (R-PA)
SENATE MINORITY WHIP: Norris Cotton (R-NH)



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