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Gary Warren Hart
United States Senator from Colorado
In office January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1987
Preceded by	Peter H. Dominick
Succeeded by	Tim Wirth
Born	November 28, 1936 (1936-11-28) (age 71) Ottawa, Kansas
Nationality	American
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Lee Ludwig Hart

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Gary Hart^[1] (born Gary Warren Hartpence, November 28, 1936) is a professor, lawyer, public servant, author and commentator from the state of Colorado. He formerly served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Colorado (1975–1987), and ran in the U.S. presidential elections in 1984 and again in 1988, when he was considered a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination until withdrawing from the race. Since retiring from the Senate, he has emerged as a consultant on national security, and continues to speak on a wide range of issues, including the environment and homeland security. In 2001, he earned a doctorate in philosophy at Oxford. In 2006, Hart accepted an endowed professorship at the University of Colorado at Denver. He also serves as Chairman for Council for a Livable World. He has written or co-authored numerous books and articles, including four novels, two under the pen name John Blackthorn. 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Biography

Hart was born in Ottawa, Kansas to Nina Pritchard and Carl Riley Hartpence, a farm equipment salesman.^[2] He grew up in and attended the public schools of Ottawa. He also attended Bethany Nazarene College (now Southern Nazarene University), located in Bethany, Oklahoma, graduating in 1958. He graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1961 and Yale Law School in 1964. Ottawa is a city situated along the Marais des Cygnes River in the central part of Franklin County, located in east-central Kansas, in the central United States. ... Southern Nazarene University (SNU) is a liberal arts university located in suburban Bethany, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City. ... Yale Divinity School is the one of the constituent graduate schools of Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. ... The Sterling Law Building Sculptural ornamentation on the Sterling Law Building Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

He became an attorney for the United States Department of Justice from 1964 to 1965, and was admitted to the Colorado and District of Columbia bars in 1965. The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. “Justice Department” redirects here. ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ... ...

He was special assistant to the solicitor of the United States Department of the Interior from 1965 to 1967. He then engaged in private law practice in Denver, Colorado on and off over the next seven years, while managing U.S. Senator George McGovern's presidential campaign in 1972. He ran for and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1974 and was reelected to a second term in 1980 before he began his own presidential runs. The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is a Cabinet department of the United States government that manages and conserves most federally owned land. ... Denver redirects here. ... George McGovern on May 8, 1972 cover of Time Magazine George Stanley McGovern, (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. ...

George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign

Hart occasionally calls himself the inventor of the Iowa caucuses, and he is certainly one of the figures who transformed Iowa from a marginal event into an early gauge of candidate strength. Following the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Senator George McGovern of South Dakota co-chaired a commission that revised the Democratic presidential nomination structure, making the process more democratic and weakening the influence of such old-style party bosses as Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who were once able to hand pick national convention delegates and dictate the way they voted. The new rules made caucuses an open process, in which relative newcomers could participate easily, without paying dues to established party organizations. That meant that a candidate who challenged the party establishment had a chance to win delegates if he or she set up an effective grass roots organization to identify supporters and get them to precinct caucus meetings. For the next presidential election, in 1972, McGovern decided to run himself, using his knowledge of the new caucus and primary structure to his advantage. McGovern started his campaign at the bottom of the polls behind more prominent frontrunners like Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. McGovern named Hart his campaign manager. Along with Rick Stearns, an expert on the new system, they decided on a strategy to focus on the newly important Iowa caucuses. They predicted that a strong showing in Iowa would give the campaign momentum that would propel them toward the nomination and weaken Muskie. Indeed, the strategy worked — setting a trend of focusing on the Iowa caucuses that has continued to this day — and the McGovern campaign took advantage of the Iowa results (and Muskie's perceived meltdown) to win the nomination. The 1968 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968, for the purposes of choosing the Democratic nominee for the 1968 U.S. presidential election. ... For other uses, see Chicago (disambiguation). ... George McGovern on May 8, 1972 cover of Time Magazine George Stanley McGovern, (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. ... Official language(s) English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Area  Ranked 17th  - Total 77,116[1] sq mi (199,905 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 380 miles (610 km)  - % water 1. ... Edmund Muskie (March 28, 1914 – March 26, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from Maine. ... Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ...

However, Hart could not steer McGovern to the presidency. In the general election, McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

1984 presidential campaign

Gary Hart (on the right) accepting his commissioning papers from Secretary of the Navy Edward Hidalgo, December 4, 1980

In February 1983, during his second term, Hart announced his candidacy for president in the 1984 presidential election. At the time of his announcement, Hart was a little-known Senator and barely received above 1% in the polls against better-known candidates such as Walter Mondale, John Glenn, and Reverend Jesse Jackson. To counter this situation, Hart started campaigning early in New Hampshire, making a then-unprecedented canvassing tour in late September, months before the primary. This strategy attracted national media attention to his campaign, and by late 1983, he had risen moderately in the polls to the middle of the field, mostly at the expense of the sinking candidacies of Glenn and Alan Cranston. Mondale won the Iowa caucus in late January, but Hart polled a respectable 16%. Two weeks later, in the New Hampshire primary, he shocked much of the party establishment and the media by defeating Mondale by ten percentage points. Hart instantly became the main challenger to Mondale for the nomination, and appeared to have the momentum on his side. Flag of the United States Secretary of the Navy. ... Edward Hidalgo Edward Hidalgo (October 12, 1912 – January 21, 1995) was Secretary of the Navy of the United States in the Jimmy Carter administration from October 24, 1979 to January 20, 1981. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Walter Frederick Fritz Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (largely established by former Vice President Hubert Humphrey). ... For other persons named John Glenn, see John Glenn (disambiguation). ... The Reverend is an honorary prefix added to the names of Christian clergy and ministers. ... Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. ... For other uses, see New Hampshire (disambiguation). ... Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was a U.S. journalist and politician. ... Since 1976, the Iowa caucus has been the first indication of which candidate for President of the United States would win the nomination of his or her political party at that partys national convention. ...

Hart's campaign was disorganized and chronically in debt, to a final count of $4.75 million.^[3] In states like Illinois where delegates were elected directly by primary voters, Hart often had incomplete delegate slates. Hart's "new ideas" were criticized as too vague and centrist by many Democrats. Shortly after he became the new front runner, it was revealed that Hart had changed his last name from Hartpence to Hart, had often listed 1937 instead of 1936 as his birth date, and had changed his signature several times. This, along with two separations from his wife, Lee, caused some to question Hart's "flake factor". Nonetheless, he and his wife have remained married for almost fifty years. Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (140,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ...

The two men swapped victories in the primaries, with Hart getting exposure as a candidate with "new ideas" and Mondale rallying the party establishment to his side. The two men fought to a draw in the Super Tuesday primaries, with Hart winning states in the West, Florida, and New England. Mondale fought back and began ridiculing what he claimed to be the emptiness of Hart's ideas. In the most famous television moment of the campaign, he ridiculed Hart's "new ideas" by quoting a line from a popular Wendy's television commercial at the time: "Where's the beef?". Mondale's remark was not effectively countered by Hart's campaign, and when Hart — who was seen by many voters as a fresh, honest alternative to typical politicians — ran stereotyped negative TV commercials against Mondale in the crucial Illinois primary, his campaign descended to the level of ordinary politics that Mondale represented, and Hart's appeal as a new kind of Democrat never quite entirely recovered. Once primaries in the delegate-rich states of New York and Pennsylvania arrived, Mondale's vast fund-raising superiority as the party-establishment candidate helped him overcome Hart's greater attractiveness as a fresher political face. Nevertheless Hart bounced back in states where there was a greater appetite for change, and he won primaries in Ohio and California. By the time the Democratic convention arrived, Mondale had a lead in total delegates (owing largely to the un-elected super delegates from the party establishment) that Hart was not quite able to overcome, and Mondale was nominated. But this race for the nomination was the closest in two generations, and most felt that when Mondale later was trounced in the election against Ronald Reagan, winning only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia, that Hart and younger, more independent candidates like him represented the future of the party. In the United States, Super Tuesday commonly refers to a Tuesday in early March of a presidential election year. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Florida. ... This article is about the region in the United States of America. ... Wendys is an international chain of fast food restaurants founded by Dave Thomas in 1969 in Columbus, Ohio. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... The picture sleeve of a Wheres the Beef single, recorded by Coyote McCloud and Clara Peller, based on her legendary advertisement Wheres the beef? is a catch phrase best known in the United States and Canada. ... This article is about the state. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Reagan redirects here. ... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Largest metro area Minneapolis-St. ... ...

1988 presidential campaign and the Donna Rice affair

Hart declined to run for a third term in the Senate, leaving office in early 1987 with the intent of running for president again. In January 1987, he was the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in the U.S. 1988 presidential election.^[4] It seemed that only Democratic party efforts to recruit New York Governor Mario Cuomo could thwart his nomination. Hart had put in a strong showing in the 1984 presidential election, and had refined his campaign in the intervening years. This article is about the state. ... This is a list of the Governors of New York. ... Mario Matthew Cuomo (born June 15, 1932) served as the Governor of New York from 1983 to 1995. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ...

Photo of Donna Rice sitting on the knees of Gary Hart on the luxury yacht Monkey Business, the climactic image that ended Hart's first 1988 presidential campaign.

Hart officially declared his candidacy on April 13, 1987.^[5] Rumors began circulating nearly immediately that Hart was having an extramarital affair. In an interview that appeared in the New York Times on May 3, 1987, Hart responded to the rumors by daring the press corps: "Follow me around. I don't care. I'm serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'll be very bored."^[6] The Miami Herald had been investigating Hart's rumored womanizing for weeks before the "dare" appeared in the New York Times. Two reporters from the Miami Herald had staked out his residence and observed an attractive young woman coming out of Hart's Washington, D.C., townhouse on the evening of May 2. The Herald published the story on Sunday, May 3, the same day Hart's dare appeared in print, and the scandal spread rapidly through the national media. Hart and his allies attacked the Herald for rushing the story into print, claiming that it had unfairly judged the situation without finding out the true facts. Hart claimed that the reporters had not watched both entrances to his home and could not have seen when the young woman entered and left the building. The Miami Herald reporter had flown to Washington, D.C. on the same flight as the woman, identified as Donna Rice. Hart was dogged with questions regarding his views on marital infidelity. In public, his wife, Lee, supported him, claiming the relationship with the young woman was innocent.^[7] A poll of voters in New Hampshire for the New Hampshire Primary showed that Hart's support had dropped in half, from 32% to 17%, placing him suddenly ten points behind Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. Image File history File links Donna_Rice_and_Gary_Hart. ... Image File history File links Donna_Rice_and_Gary_Hart. ... Press Kit photo of Donna Rice Hughes from ProtectKids. ... Monkey Business is a palatial yacht credited for sinking former Colorado, USA senator Gary Harts campaign for President of the United States in 1988. ... is the 103rd day of the year (104th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ... ... is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Press Kit photo of Donna Rice Hughes from ProtectKids. ... For other uses, see New Hampshire (disambiguation). ... The New Hampshire primary is the first of a number of statewide political party primary elections held in the United States every four years, as part of the process of the Democratic and Republican parties choosing their candidate for the presidential elections on the subsequent November. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. ...

On May 5, the Herald received a further tip that Hart had spent a night in Bimini on a yacht called the Monkey Business with a woman who was not his wife. The Herald obtained photographs of Hart aboard the Monkey Business with then-29-year-old model Donna Rice, sitting on Hart's lap. The photographs were subsequently published in the National Enquirer. On May 8, 1987, a week after the Donna Rice story broke, Hart dropped out of the race. At a press conference, he lashed out at the media, saying "I said that I bend, but I don't break, and believe me, I'm not broken." A Gallup Poll found that nearly two-thirds (64%) of the U.S. respondents it surveyed thought the media treatment of Hart was "unfair." A little over half (53%) responded that marital infidelity had little to do with a president's ability to govern. is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Bimini Island from space, June 1998 Map of the Bahamas with the Biminis positioned center left (click to enlarge). ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Monkey Business is a palatial yacht credited for sinking former Colorado, USA senator Gary Harts campaign for President of the United States in 1988. ... The National Enquirer is a national American supermarket tabloid. ... is the 128th day of the year (129th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... A Gallup poll is an opinion poll frequently used by the mass media for representing public opinion. ...

Not everyone was impressed with Hart's diatribe against the press. Television writer Paul Slansky noted that Hart had tried to deflect blame from himself for his downfall to the media, and that he offered no apology to betrayed supporters who now suddenly had to find other candidates to back. To many observers, the press conference was redolent of Richard Nixon's "Last Press Conference" of November 7, 1962, in which Nixon blamed the media for his loss in the 1962 California gubernatorial election. Hart, in fact, received a letter from Nixon himself commending him for "handling a very difficult situation uncommonly well" ^[8]. Nixon redirects here. ... is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In December 1987, Hart returned to the race, declaring "Let's let the people decide!" He competed in the New Hampshire primary and received 4,888 votes, approximately 4%. After the Super Tuesday contests on March 8, he withdrew from the campaign a second time. is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Later career

After his Senate service and presidential races, Hart resumed the practice of law. He remained moderately active in politics, serving on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorism, also known as the Hart-Rudman Commission, commissioned on behalf of Bill Clinton in 1998 to study U.S. homeland security. The commission issued several findings calling for broad changes to security policy, but many were not implemented until the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century / Hart-Rudman Commission is also known as the Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security From the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century web pages: The United States Commission on National Security/21st Century was chartered to review in a... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... For the United States Cabinet department, see United States Department of Homeland Security. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ...

He earned a D.Phil. in Politics degree at St Antony's College, Oxford University in 2001. St Antonys College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

At the behest of two Harvard graduate students, Will Polkinghorn and Antwaun Smith, Hart considered running in the 2004 presidential election, but decided against seeking the nomination in May 2003. Despite his decision not to run, the exploratory process generated considerable attention. On a website designed by his supporters in that exploratory effort, he is described in these terms: "Gary Hart — statesman, scholar, attorney, writer — is a Renaissance man of new ideas". Presidential election results map. ...

According to an October 23, 2004 National Journal article and later reports in the Washington Post, Hart was mentioned as a probable Cabinet appointment if Democrat John Kerry won the Presidency. He was considered a top candidate for either Director of National Intelligence, Secretary of Homeland Security, or Secretary of Defense. He is still considered a leading contender for the intelligence job if a Democrat wins the 2008 presidential election. is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... National Journal is a weekly magazine that provides Insight for Insiders through nonpartisan reporting on the current political environment as well as emerging political and policy trends. ... ... John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts, in his fourth term of office. ... The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) is the United States government official subject to the authority, direction and control of the President who is responsible under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 for: Serving as the principal adviser to the President, the National Security Council, and the... The United States Secretary of Homeland Security is the head of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the body concerned with protecting the American homeland and the safety of American citizens. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... Presidential electoral votes by state The U.S. presidential election of 2008 is scheduled to occur on November 4, 2008. ...

Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. It was announced in January 2006 that Hart will hold an endowed professorship at the University of Colorado. Logo of Huffington Post The Huffington Post (often referred to on the Internet as HuffPo or HuffPost) is a politically liberal online news website and aggregated weblog founded by Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, featuring hyperlinks to various news sources and columnists. ... The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. Through its membership, meetings, and studies, it has been... The University of Colorado at Denver (CU-Denver) is part of the University of Colorado system. ...

He is the author of James Monroe, part of the Times Books series on the American presidents, ISBN 0-8050-6960-7, published October 2005. James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825). ...

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He is an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. The Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. ...

In September 2007, The Huffington Post published Hart's letter, "Unsolicited Advice to the Government of Iran", in which he stated that "Provocation is no longer required to take America to war" and warns Iran that "for the next sixteen months or so, you should not only not take provocative actions, you should not seem to be doing so". He goes on to suggest that the Bush-Cheney administration is waiting for an opportunity to attack Iran -- "Don't give a certain vice president we know the justification he is seeking to attack your country."

Hart linked American energy policy with national security in an essay published in 5280, the Denver city magazine, in November 2007. Noting than many Americans don't think their country has an energy policy, Hart wrote, "In fact, we do have an energy policy: It’s to continue to import more than half our oil and sacrifice American lives so we can drive our Humvees. This is our current policy, and it is massively immoral."

Gary Hart currently sits on the board of directors for the Energy Literacy Advocates.

Hart and his wife, Lee, are residents of Kittredge, Colorado. Kittredge is a census-designated place located in Jefferson County, Colorado. ...

Trivia

Senator Hart was a groomsman in then-Senate Naval Liaison John McCain's second wedding (Senator William Cohen was a best man). McCain was later elected as a Republican to the United States Senate from Arizona, in the same year Hart retired in order to prepare his presidential bid^[9]. McCain redirects here. ... William Sebastian Cohen (1940- ) is an author and American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. ... GOP redirects here. ... Type Upper House President of the Senate Richard B. Cheney, R since January 20, 2001 President pro tempore Robert C. Byrd, D since January 4, 2007 Members 100 Political groups Democratic Party Republican Party Last elections November 7, 2006 Meeting place Senate Chamber United States Capitol Washington, DC United States... Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ...

Gary Hart appeared in an episode of Cheers, coming to the bar to return Sam Malone's (Ted Danson) jacket which was left in his car after Sam served as his Trivial Pursuit Partner.

Bibliography

Under The Eagle's Wing: A National Security Strategy of the United States for 2009 (Speaker's Corner, 2008);

The Courage of Our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats by Gary Hart (Time Books/Henry Holt, 2006);

The Shield and The Cloak: The Security of the Commons (Oxford University Press, 2006);

God and Caesar in America: an essay on religion and politics (Fulcrum Books, 2005);

The Presidency of James Monroe, in the American Presidency series edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Time Books/Henry Holt, 2005);

The Fourth Power: a new grand strategy for the United States in the 21st century (Oxford University Press, 2004);

Restoration of the Republic: the Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st Century America (2002), for which he received a D. Phil. degree from Oxford University;

The Minuteman: Restoring an Army of the People (1998);

The Patriot: An Exhortation to Liberate America from the Barbarians (1996);

The Good Fight: The Education of an American Reformer (a New York Times Notable Book) (1995);

Russia Shakes the World: The Second Russian Revolution (1991);

A New Democracy : new approaches to the challenges of the 1980's (1986);

America Can Win: The Case for Military Reform (1985);

Right from the Start: A Chronicle of the McGovern Campaign (1973);

Four novels:

I, Che Guevara (2000)(under the pseudonym John Blackthorn)

Sins of the Fathers (1999)(under the pseudonym John Blackthorn)

The Strategies of Zeus (1985)

The Double Man (with former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen, 1984)

• In January 2000, Hart revealed that he is the political thriller writer John Blackthorn, whose books include Sins of the Fathers and I, Che Guevara.^[10]

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Electoral history

Colorado United States Senate election, 1974 (Democratic primary)^[11]: Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...

• Gary Hart - 81,161 (39.92%)
• Herrick S. Roth - 66,819 (32.86%)
• Martin P. Miller - 55,339 (27.22%)

Colorado United States Senate election, 1974^[12] Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ...

• Gary Hart (D) - 471,688 (57.23%)
• Peter H. Dominick (R) (inc.) - 325,526 (39.50%)
• John M. King (I) - 16,131 (1.96%)
• Joseph Fred Hyskell (Prohibition) - 8,404 (1.02%)
• Henry John Olshaw (Independent American) - 2,394 (0.29%)

Colorado United States Senate election, 1980^[13]: Peter Hoyt Dominick was a United States Representative and a Senator from Colorado; He was born in Stamford, Connecticut on July 7, 1915; graduated from St. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

• Gary Hart (D) (inc.) - 590,501 (50.34%)
• Mary E. Buchanan (R) - 571,295 (48.70%)
• Earl Higgerson (Prohibition) - 7,265 (0.62%)
• Henry John Olshaw (I) - 4,081 (0.35%)

1984 Democratic presidential primaries^[14]: Presidential electoral votes by state. ...

• Walter Mondale - 6,952,912 (38.32%)
• Gary Hart - 6,504,842 (35.85%)
• Jesse Jackson - 3,282,431 (18.09%)
• John Glenn - 617,909 (3.41%)
• George McGovern - 334,801 (1.85%)
• Unpledged delegates - 146,212 (0.81%)
• Lyndon LaRouche - 123,649 (0.68%)
• Reubin O'Donovan Askew - 52,759 (0.29%)
• Alan Cranston - 51,437 (0.28%)
• Ernest Hollings - 33,684 (0.19%)

1984 Democratic National Convention^[15]: Walter Frederick Fritz Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (largely established by former Vice President Hubert Humphrey). ... Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. ... For other persons named John Glenn, see John Glenn (disambiguation). ... George McGovern on May 8, 1972 cover of Time Magazine George Stanley McGovern, (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. ... Lyndon LaRouche at a news conference in Paris in February 2006. ... Reubin ODonovan Askew (born September 11, 1928) is an American politician. ... Alan MacGregor Cranston (June 19, 1914 – December 31, 2000) was a U.S. journalist and politician. ... Ernest Frederick Fritz Hollings (born January 1, 1922) was a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to January 3, 2005. ... The 1984 Democratic National Convention was held in San Francisco, California in July of 1984, to select a candidate for the 1984 United States presidential election. ...

• Walter Mondale - 2,191 (56.41%)
• Gary Hart - 1,201 (30.92%)
• Jesse Jackson - 466 (12.00%)
• Thomas Eagleton - 18 (0.46%)
• George McGovern - 4 (0.10%)
• John Glenn - 2 (0.05%)
• Joe Biden - 1 (0.03%)
• Martha Kirkland - 1 (0.03%)

1988 Democratic presidential primaries^[16]: Walter Frederick Fritz Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (largely established by former Vice President Hubert Humphrey). ... Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. ... Thomas Eagleton and George McGovern on July 24, 1972 cover of Time magazine after his nomination for vice president on the Democratic ticket Thomas Eagleton on August 7, 1972 cover of Time Magazine after his withdrawal for vice president on the Democratic ticket. ... George McGovern on May 8, 1972 cover of Time Magazine George Stanley McGovern, (born July 19, 1922) is a former United States Representative, Senator, and Democratic presidential nominee. ... For other persons named John Glenn, see John Glenn (disambiguation). ... Biden redirects here. ... The United States presidential election of 1988 featured an open primary for both major parties. ...

• Michael Dukakis - 9,898,750 (42.47%)
• Jesse Jackson - 6,788,991 (29.13%)
• Al Gore - 3,185,806 (13.67%)
• Dick Gephardt - 1,399,041 (6.00%)
• Paul M. Simon - 1,082,960 (4.65%)
• Gary Hart - 415,716 (1.78%)
• Unpledged delegates - 250,307 (1.07%)
• Bruce Babbitt - 77,780 (0.33%)
• Lyndon LaRouche - 70,938 (0.30%)
• David Duke - 45,289 (0.19%)
• James Traficant - 30,879 (0.13%)
• Douglas Applegate - 25,068 (0.11%)

1988 Democratic National Convention^[17]: Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. ... Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. ... This article is about the former Vice President of the United States. ... Richard Andrew Dick Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is senior counsel at the global law firm DLA Piper and a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. ... Paul Martin Simon (November 29, 1928 - December 9, 2003) was an American politician from Illinois. ... Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27, 1938), a Democrat, served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as Governor of Arizona. ... Lyndon LaRouche at a news conference in Paris in February 2006. ... David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. ... James Anthony Traficant, Jr. ... Douglas Applegate (born March 27, 1928) is a former Representative from Ohio. ... The 1988 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia from July 18–21, 1988 to select a candidate for the 1988 United States presidential election. ...

• Michael Dukakis - 2,877 (70.09%)
• Jesse Jackson - 1,219 (29.70%)
• Richard Stallings - 3 (0.07%)
• Joe Biden - 2 (0.05%)
• Dick Gephardt - 2 (0.05%)
• Lloyd Bentsen - 1 (0.02%)
• Gary Hart - 1 (0.02%)

Michael Stanley Dukakis (born November 3, 1933) is an American Democratic politician, former Governor of Massachusetts, and the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. ... Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. ... Richard H. Stallings Richard Howard Stallings (born October 7, 1940 in Ogden, Utah) is a Pocatello, Idaho, city councilman and chairman of the Idaho Democratic Party. ... Biden redirects here. ... Richard Andrew Dick Gephardt (born January 31, 1941) is senior counsel at the global law firm DLA Piper and a former prominent American politician of the Democratic Party. ... Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. ...

Footnotes

• Clinton, Bill (2005). My Life. Vintage. ISBN 1-4000-3003-X.

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External links

• Source material: Biographical Database of the U.S. Congress: HART, Gary Warren, 1936-
• Time Magazine Gary Hart comes out.
• Senator Gary Hart Challenges the Unholy Alliance of 'Faith' and Government
• Transcript and audio of interview with Hart conducted by Democracy Now!

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