QUESTIONS:
1. Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D.-S.C.) announced two weeks ago that he would not seek re-election in ’04. How many other Democratic senators have announced their exit from office next year?
2. How many Republican senators are not seeking re-election in ’04?
3. Hollings, of course, was junior senator to the late Strom Thurmond for all but one of the 37 years he was in the Senate. Interestingly, both Hollings and Thurmond experienced their only political defeat in South Carolina at the hands of the same man. Can you name him?
4. California’s embattled Gov. Gray Davis is now in the fight of his life to overcome the recall he faces October 7. Who was the only candidate ever to defeat Davis at the polls?
5. Governors of California have long been mentioned for national tickets. Prior to Ronald Reagan, who was the last governor of California to be on the national ticket of a major party?
ANSWERS:
1. One. Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia
2. One. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois
3. Democratic Sen. Olin Johnston, who served in the Senate from 1944 until his death in 1965. Johnston won renomination over then-Democrat Thurmond in 1950 and won nomination to his last term in 1962 by defeating then-Gov. Hollings.
4. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who was nominated to her first term in 1992 over then-State Controller Davis.
5. Gov. Earl Warren, Republican nominee for vice president in 1948.
