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• James Inhofe is the senior Senator from Oklahoma. Preceded by David L. Boren, Inhofe has been serving as a Senator since 1994. Before attaining a seat in the Senate, he represented Oklahoma's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives.

  Inhofe has been able to hold his Oklahoma seat with a successful re-election in the U.S. Senate in the 2008 election race.FOX News: Dems GOP Win Early Senate Races (November 4, 2008)

• Fast Facts:

  1. Born: November 17, 1934 in Des Moines, Iowa
  2. Assumed Office: November 17, 1994
  3. Spouse: Kay Inhofe
  4. Alma Mater: University of Tulsa
  5. Party: Republican
  6. Religion: Presbyterian
  7. 1967-1969: Oklahoma House of Representatives
  8. 1969-1977: Oklahoma Senate
  9. 1987-1994: U.S. House of Representatives
  10. 1994: Wins a U.S. Senate seat

• Positions

  • Voted for prohibiting minors to cross state lines for abortions in 2008.
  • Voted against funding an additional $10.2 billion to education in 2007.
  • Voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act in 2006.
  • Voted against redeploying U.S. troops out of Iraq by March 2008.

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