Trent Lott
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Chester Trent Lott Sr. is an American lobbyist, lawyer, author, and politician who represented Mississippi in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1989 and in the United States Sena
Official portrait, 2007
Lott with President Richard Nixon in 1973
Lott with President Ronald Reagan in 1982
Lott with President George W. Bush in 2001
Bob Dole
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Robert Joseph Dole was an American politician, attorney, and U.S. Army officer who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican leader of the U.S. Senate dur
Trent Lott
…majority in the Senate, Lott became Senate Majority Whip in 1995 and then Senate Majority Leader in 1996, upon the resignation of presidential nominee Bob Dole of Kansas. Following GOP losses in the 2000 Senate races that resulted in a 50–50 split, Lott briefly became Senate Minority Leader, as Democrat Al…
Official portrait, c. 1980
Friend and future senator Daniel Inouye (left) with Dole (next to Inouye) playing cards while recovering at Percy Jones Army Hospital (now Hart–Dole–Inouye Federal Center) in the mid-1940s.
Dole in Emporia, Kansas, 1974. Photo by Patricia DuBose Duncan.
Bob Dole (far left) at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City with (from left) Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Ford and Betty Ford