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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