Jim Bunning
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James Paul David Bunning was an American professional baseball pitcher and politician from Kentucky who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Re
Official portrait, c. 2008–2009
Bunning as a Detroit Tigers rookie in 1955
Bunning greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1983
Bunning with his eventual successor, Rand Paul
Wendell Ford
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Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 53rd governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974, and as a member of the United States Sena
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…of the House in 1995, Bunning served as chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security until 1999. In 1998, Senate Minority Whip Wendell Ford decided to retire after 24 years in the Senate—at the time, the longest term in Kentucky history (a record later surpassed by Mitch McConnell). Bunning…
Official portrait, c. 1990s
Former governor Happy Chandler ran against Ford in the 1971 gubernatorial election.
Walter Dee Huddleston, Ford's campaign manager, was elected to the United States Senate in 1972.
Kit Bond and Ford formed the Senate National Guard Caucus in 1989.