Harkin won a race for U. S. Senate in 1984 by a wide margin.

In 1984, Harkin won the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate and defeated freshman Republican Roger Jepsen by a surprisingly wide 11-point margin.

Harkin won the Iowa caucus and those in Idaho and Minnesota ( with help from Senator Paul Wellstone ), but he ran poorly in New Hampshire and other primaries and ultimately lost the Democratic Party nomination to Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas.

Tom Harkin won his native Iowa without much surprise.

He easily won the Republican nomination, but lost to Harkin by 10 points.

Jim Norton's performance as Richard Harkin in The Seafarer at The National Theatre won the 2007 Best Supporting Actor Laurence Olivier Award, and he picked up a Tony Award in 2008 for Best Featured Actor in a play.

While running for his Senate seat in 1984, and again while running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, Harkin has faced criticism for claiming that he had flown combat missions over North Vietnam.

In order to address these issues Harkin proposed the ADA Amendments Act, which in his words " will restore the proper balance and application of the ADA by clarifying and broadening the definition of disability, while increasing eligibility for ADA protections.

Former Committee Chairman Robert Byrd ( D-WV, far right ) shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates while Sen. Patrick Leahy ( D-VT, center right ) and Sen. Tom Harkin ( D-IA ) look on.

Ambitious reporter Amy Harkin ( Nancy McKeon ) is stuck reporting on the heat wave while trying to find proof behind the scenes that Lexer and Midwest are responsible for the lack of sufficient power.

Harkin realizes what happened to the power and rushes to find London, while Benson and Secretary Abbott gather energy from a multitude of other companies to get around the breakdown at Lexer.

After Amy's cameraman is injured while rescuing her sister-in-law, Harkin stays behind with him and their neighbor.

" Brendan Harkin and Pieter Sweval were asked to leave the band after Attention Shoppers !, reportedly since they wanted to continue in that record's musical direction, while the others favored a return to the harder sound of the first two releases.

Prominent liberals in the Democratic Party like senators Tom Harkin, Ted Kennedy, Claiborne Pell, and Carol Moseley Braun voted in favor of the legislation while many conservative-to-moderate Democrats such as senators John Breaux, Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings, and Sam Nunn and representatives such as John Murtha and Gene Taylor voted against it.

When Harkin was appointed National Parks Branch Commissioner in 1911, he had to juggle the twin policy of advocating conservatism while encouraging tourism to the parks, which brought forth controversy to Harkin ’ s role as commissioner.

Harkin was satisfied with his new work force because he was able to pay them twenty-five cents a day, while the daily wage in an isolated camp was two dollars.

However, several candidates such as Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas, Jerry Brown, Bob Kerrey, Douglas Wilder and Bill Clinton chose to run.

After Harkin left the race, Hightower supported Jerry Brown, again the governor of California, and cast his superdelegate vote for Governor Bill Clinton at the 1992 Democratic National Convention.

* February 10, 1992 – Tom Harkin ( 76 %), " Uncommitted " ( 12 %), Paul Tsongas ( 4 %), Bill Clinton ( 3 %), Bob Kerrey ( 2 %), and Jerry Brown ( 2 %)

The other primary contenders were Douglas Wilder, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas, and Jerry Brown.

While Goodman's cover version of " The Dutchman " is one of the best known, along with a cover by Irish artists Liam Clancy and Tommy Makem, the song has been covered by many other artists as well, including Bernard Wrigley, John Gorka, Suzy Bogguss, Norm Hacking, Anne Hills, John McDermott, The New Kingston Trio, Gamble Rogers, Tom Russell, Jerry Jeff Walker, Robert James Waller, Cashman & West, Wood's Tea Company, Keith Harkin, Celtic Thunder, David Soul, Danny Doyle and Brendan Grace.

Harkin speaks during the first night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado | Denver, Colorado, opening his speech using American Sign Language in reference to his involvement with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

* 1958 – Michael E. Harkin, American anthropologist

In the first primary contest, the Iowa caucus, Clinton finished a distant third to Iowa Senator Tom Harkin.

The impetus for many of the provisions came from earlier bills, for instance the condemnation of discrimination was originally proposed by Senator Tom Harkin ( D-IA ) in an amendment to the Combatting Terrorism Act of 2001, though in a different form.

* Tom Harkin, U. S. Senator from Iowa

File: Tom Harkin official portrait. jpg | Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa

U. S. Senator Tom Harkin ( Iowa ) ran as a populist liberal with labor union support.

The primary season began with U. S. Senator Tom Harkin winning his native Iowa as expected.

Harkin dropped out.

In 2011, Senators Tom Harkin and Roy Blunt and Representatives Steny Hoyer and Peter King introduced the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Act to authorize federal funding for Special Olympics Programs and Best Buddies Programs.

* RFC 1785 – TFTP Option Negotiation Analysis, G. Malkin, A. Harkin, March 1995.

* RFC 2347 – TFTP Option Extension, G. Malkin, A. Harkin, May 1998.

* RFC 2348 – TFTP Blocksize Option, G. Malkin, A. Harkin, May 1998.

However, the party machinery almost uniformly backed Landon, a wealthy businessman and centrist, who won primaries in Massachusetts and New Jersey and dominated in the caucuses and at state party conventions.

Gephardt won the Iowa caucuses and South Dakota primary in February, but ran out of money and dropped out after losing badly in the March " Super Tuesday " primaries, when he won only the Missouri primary.

Although Muskie won the Iowa caucuses, McGovern's campaign left Iowa with momentum.

However, after the 1848 elections gave the Democratic Party a greater share of Iowa legislators, Jones became a candidate for one of the two seats, and after four ballots won the Democratic caucuses ' nomination for one of the two seats.

The only notable labor union to endorse him early was the International Association of Fire Fighters ; however, Kerry's support quickly snowballed as he won caucuses and primaries.

In the end, Udall finished second in the New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New York, Michigan, South Dakota, and Ohio primaries, and won the caucuses in his home state of Arizona, while running even with Carter in the New Mexico caucuses.

Udall supported Senator Edward Kennedy's challenge to President Carter in 1980, and Kennedy won the Arizona caucuses, one of only three wins for Kennedy in the west.

Lieberman won the election, and currently caucuses with the Democrats.

Arthur Defensor, Sr. ran for the governorship of Iloilo and won the polls, he also caucuses with the Nacionalista Party and Lakas-Kampi-CMD.