United States Senate election in Washington, 1980
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The 1980 United States Senate election in Washington was held on November 3, 1980. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Warren Magnuson lost re-election to State Senator Slade Gorton
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Slade Gorton
Thomas Slade Gorton III is an American politician. A Republican, he was a U.S. senator from Washington state from 1981 to 1987, and from 1989 to 2001. He held both of the state's Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice as an incumbent: in 1986 by Brock Adams, and...
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