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Military Service Records of Senate Candidates


Since senators sometimes get to vote on sending America's young men and women in the armed forces off to wars in distant lands, it is perhaps informative to see how many of those senators and senate candidates themselves served in the armed forces. Here is the list. A list of other politicians' service records is available here .

State Democrat Republican
Arizona Jim Pederson: Did not serve Jon Kyl: Did not serve
California Dianne Feinstein: Did not serve Dick Mountjoy: Navy during Korean War
Connecticut Ned Lamont/Joe Lieberman: Did not serve Alan Schlesinger: Did not serve
Delaware Tom Carper: Navy 1968-73 (Vietnam) Mike Protack: Marines for 10 years
Florida Bill Nelson: Astronaut on space shuttle Columbia Katherine Harris: Did not serve
Hawaii Daniel Akaka: Army during WWII Jerry Coffee: POW in Vietnam for 7 years
Indiana   Dick Lugar: Navy 1957-60
Maine Jean Hay Bright: Did not serve Olympia Snowe: Did not serve
Maryland Ben Cardin/Kweisi Mfume: Did not serve Michael S. Steele: Did not serve
Massachusetts Edward Kennedy: Army 1951-1953 Kenneth Chase/Kevin Scott: Did not serve
Michigan Debbie Stabenow: Did not serve Mike Bouchard: Did not serve
Minnesota Amy Klobuchar (DFL): Did not serve Mark Kennedy: Did not serve
Mississippi Erik Fleming: Did not serve Trent Lott: Did not serve
Missouri Claire McCaskill: Did not serve Jim Talent: Did not serve
Montana Jon Tester: Did not serve Conrad Burns: Marines 1954-62
Nebraska Ben Nelson: Did not serve Pete Ricketts: Did not serve
Nevada Jack Carter: Navy 1968-70 (Vietnam) John Ensign: Did not serve
New Jersey Robert Menendez: Did not serve Thomas Kean, Jr.: Did not serve
New Mexico Jeff Bingaman: Did not serve Allen McCulloch: Did not serve
New York Hillary Rodham Clinton: Did not serve John Spencer/KT McFarland: Did not serve
North Dakota Kent Conrad: Did not serve Dwight Grotberg: Did not serve
Ohio Sherrod Brown: Did not serve Mike DeWine: Did not serve
Pennsylvania Bob Casey, Jr.: Did not serve Rick Santorum: Did not serve
Rhode Island Sheldon Whitehouse: Did not serve Lincoln Chafee/Steve Laffey: Did not serve
Tennessee Harold Ford, Jr.: Did not serve Bob Corker: Did not serve
Texas Barbara Radnofsky: Did not serve Kay Bailey Hutchison: Did not serve
Utah Pete Ashdown: Did not serve Orrin Hatch: Did not serve
Vermont Bernie Sanders: Did not serve Richard Tarrant: Did not serve
Virginia Jim Webb: Marines 1968-72 (Vietnam) George Allen: Did not serve
Washington Maria Cantwell: Did not serve Mike McGavick: Did not serve
West Virginia Robert Byrd: Did not serve John Raese: Did not serve
Wisconsin Herb Kohl: Army Reserve 1958-64 Robert Lorge: Did not serve
Wyoming Dale Groutage: 34 years as Army/Navy/AF engineer Craig Thomas: Did not serve

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