Dorgan ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress in 1974.

In his place, Byron Dorgan ran for the open seat and defeated Republican Jim Smykowski by 56. 8 % to 42. 6 %.

Rushton did his own host duties for New Stars and Garters, a variety entertainment show in 1965, where he first met Arlene Dorgan.

Four Democratic senators ( Byron Dorgan ( D-ND ), Russell Feingold ( D-WI ), Barbara Mikulski ( D-MD ), and Paul Wellstone ( D-MN )) stated they opposed the bill for its repeal of Sections 20 and 32.

With Senator Byron Dorgan, Wyden offered an unsuccessful amendment to end funding for TV Martí, an anti-Castro broadcasting project of the U. S. government aimed at Cuba.

He is ranked by Nat Fleischer and Charley Rose as the # 1 All-Time Welterweight ; other sports personalities such as Tad Dorgan, Tom O ' Rourke, Dan Morgan and Jimmy Johnston call him " the greatest pound for pound fighter who ever lived ".

On January 11, 2010, Hoeven announced he would run in the 2010 North Dakota Senate election for the seat being vacated by Senator Byron Dorgan.

Byron Leslie Dorgan ( born May 14, 1942 ) is a former United States Senator from North Dakota and is now a senior policy advisor for a Washington, DC law firm.

Dorgan is now co-chair of Government Relations Practice for the Washington, DC law firm Arent Fox.

Dorgan worked in management for a Denver aerospace firm, eventually earning a position training others for high ranking company positions.

Dorgan won the election for the seat.

Although Dorgan had indicated in early 2008 he would seek a fourth term in the Senate, on January 5, 2010, he issued a statement announcing he would not run for re-election.

Dorgan is married to the former Kimberly Olson, an Executive Vice President and lobbyist for The American Council of Life Insurers.

In November 2005, Dorgan was accused of receiving campaign contributions from people who worked for companies connected to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

She considered a bid for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate election to replace retiring Senator Byron Dorgan, but on March 3, 2010, declined the rematch against Hoeven, who was ultimately elected.

On August 17, 1881, Worcester suspended Captain Mike Dorgan ‚ and Harry took over the position for the remainder of the season.

John L. " Ike " Dorgan was Rickard's press agent and, later, publicity manager for the Garden.

In 2004, he declined to run for United States Senate against Dem-NPLer Byron Dorgan despite calls from national Republican leaders including then-President George W. Bush.

In 1995, he worked for World Wrestling Federation going by his real name, Joe Dorgan, following in the footsteps of his uncle, Tony Parisi, who worked for the WWWF under Vince McMahon, Sr. Johnny Swinger appeared on WWFs flagship program, " WWF RAW ", facing Shane Douglas in a nationally televised broadcast in September of that year.

His brother John L. " Ike " Dorgan ( born April 1879 ) was publicity manager for the Madison Square Garden, and his brother Richard W. " Dick " Dorgan ( born September 1892 ) was an illustrator and cartoonist.

During the financial crisis of 2007 – 2010, a poster of a Hello Kitty pre-paid debit card expanded to roughly 1 meter in length was displayed on the floor of the US Senate by Senator Byron Dorgan as a demonstration of extreme methods used by credit companies to attract " children 10 to 14 years of age ".

His future Senate colleague Kent Conrad worked in the same office before succeeding Dorgan at this post.

When Byron Dorgan was the chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee, he was one of the most powerful Democrats in the Senate.

* Senate Democratic Policy Committee Hearing-“ An Oversight Hearing on Waste, Fraud and Abuse in U. S. Government Contracting in Iraq ” Statement of Senator Byron L. Dorgan February 14, 2005

A 2010 report by Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chairman Byron Dorgan, D-N. D., found that the Aberdeen Area of the Indian Health Service ( IHS ) is in a " chronic state of crisis.

Conrad took the new seat in 1992 and Dorgan assumed Conrad's old seat a few weeks early.

Fellow cartoonist Tad Dorgan nicknamed him " the Greek ", a label which stuck and was taken up by his biographers and the press, who called him the son of a Greek baker.

Halfway through the season, U. S. Senator Byron Dorgan singled out Brisco as the most violent show on television based on a study at Minnesota's Concordia College, in which students watched 132 hours of network and cable programming during a single week.

In 1999, Dorgan was an early voice of concern over lack of regulation of derivatives, which would later be a central issue in the subprime mortgage crisis and subsequent 2007 – 2012 global financial crisis:

Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as " dumbbell " ( a stupid person ); " for crying out loud " ( an exclamation of astonishment ); " cat's meow " and " cat's pajamas " ( as superlatives ); " applesauce " ( nonsense ); " cheaters '" ( eyeglasses ); " skimmer " ( a hat ); " hard-boiled " ( a tough person ); " drugstore cowboy " ( loafers or ladies ' men ); " nickel-nurser " ( a miser ); " as busy as a one-armed paperhanger " ( overworked ); and " Yes, we have no bananas ," which was turned into a popular song.

By March 1932, Capp was drawing Colonel Gilfeather, a single-panel, AP-owned property created in 1930 by Dick Dorgan.

According to a myth, the use of the complete phrase " hot dog " in reference to sausage was coined by the newspaper cartoonist Thomas Aloysius " TAD " Dorgan around 1900 in a cartoon recording the sale of hot dogs during a New York Giants baseball game at the Polo Grounds.

Dorgan announced on January 5, 2010 that he would not seek re-election in the 2010 North Dakota senate election, and he was succeeded by North Dakota Governor John Hoeven.

Dorgan was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, the son of Dorothy ( née Bach ) and Emmett Patrick Dorgan, and was raised in Regent, North Dakota.

Dorgan was re-elected in 1998 and 2004.

Dorgan was one of only 8 senators who voted " No " on the deregulation bill ( the Gramm – Leach – Bliley Act ) in 1999.

Former Sen. Byron Dorgan was the legislative sponsor of the JCEMP Fellowship

* A film about Ring's life was produced by Gael-Linn in 1964 and Val Dorgan wrote his biography in 1981, both works entitled " Christy Ring ".

* Cartoonist " TAD " ( Thomas A. Dorgan ) was credited in his obituary in The New York Times during 1929, as being the " First to say ' Twenty-three, Skidoo.

In the post-Watergate 1974 elections, Andrews was challenged by Byron Dorgan ( D ) and was re-elected with 55. 7 % of the vote.

The proposed legislation was sponsored by Senators Byron Dorgan ( ND ) and Russell Feingold ( WI ), two Democrats in the United States senate.

The corridor was established in 2002 by United States Senator Byron Dorgan in an effort to draw research dollars to the state.