Metzenbaum won the election by 57 to 43 %.

Taft then won Young's U. S. Senate seat six years after losing to him when Young did not run for re-election, running against Howard Metzenbaum.

Metzenbaum ran for election to the seat, but in a bitter Democratic primary, Metzenbaum lost to Glenn, who subsequently won the general election by a landslide.

Metzenbaum won the election by 57 to 43 %, even as George H. W. Bush won Ohio's electoral votes by 11 percent.

In 1950, Celebrezze ran for a seat in the Ohio State Senate, vacated by Howard Metzenbaum, and won.

In 1970, Glenn was narrowly defeated in the Democratic primary for nomination for the Senate by fellow Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, by a 51 % to 49 % margin.

Instead, he challenged Metzenbaum again, whom Gilligan had appointed to the Senate to replace William B. Saxbe, who had resigned to become attorney general.

After defeating Metzenbaum, Glenn defeated Ralph Perk, the Republican mayor of Cleveland, in the general election, beginning a Senate career that would continue until 1999.

In the 1974 Ohio Senate primary race between Howard Metzenbaum and John Glenn, Metzenbaum contrasted his business background with Glenn's military and astronaut credentials, saying his opponent had " never worked for a living.

In the late 20th century, leaving aside injudicious name-calling by senator Ernest Hollings to fellow Democrat Howard Metzenbaum on the floor of the Senate, the Crown Heights riots of 1991 were a violent expression of tensions within a very poor urban community, pitting African American residents against followers of Hassidic Judaism.

He is the son-in-law of former U. S. Sen. Howard Metzenbaum and in 1994, when Metzenbaum decided to retire from the Senate, Hyatt ran to replace him.

Howard Morton Metzenbaum ( June 4, 1917March 12, 2008 ) was an American politician who served for almost 20 years as a Democratic member of the U. S. Senate from Ohio ( 1974, 1976 – 1995 ).

In 1970 Metzenbaum ran for the Senate seat of his former employer Stephen Young, defeating John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, in the Democratic primary by a 51 % to 49 % margin.

In the 1974 Senate primary, Metzenbaum contrasted his strong business background with Glenn's military and astronaut credentials, saying his opponent had " never worked for a living ".

In 1981 Metzenbaum was insulted on the floor of the Senate when Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina called him the " senator from B ' nai Brith ".

Metzenbaum devised a different method for filibustering in the Senate by offering scores of amendments to bills.

While in the Senate, Metzenbaum was a powerful liberal.

He was known as " Senator No " ( a nickname shared by Republican Jesse Helms of North Carolina ) and " Headline Howard " because the Senate Democrats knew that almost nothing would get through if Metzenbaum opposed it even though he never held an official party leadership post or chaired a committee.

Metzenbaum became well known for his service on the Senate Judiciary Committee, particularly because of his dedicated efforts to keep stringent antitrust laws and his pro-choice stance on abortion.

" In 1985, the U. S. Senate heard testimony relating to an amendment by Senator Howard Metzenbaum which would require the quantity of aspartame in a product to be labeled.

After leaving the Senate in 1995, Metzenbaum served as the chairman of the Consumer Federation of America.

Boyle was a candidate for the United States Senate in 1994 to replace the retiring Howard Metzenbaum, but she was defeated in the Democratic primary by Joel Hyatt.

In 1982, Pfeifer ran for the U. S. Senate, but was defeated by incumbent Democrat Howard Metzenbaum.

When Metzenbaum lost the primary to Glenn ( The two were later Senate colleagues for many years.

Howard Metzenbaum, Ohio's other U. S. senator at the time, although a powerful force in the Senate, never achieved national name recognition.

In 1974, when Senator William B. Saxbe ( R-OH ) resigned from his seat to accept the nomination as U. S. attorney general, Governor Jack Gilligan appointed Metzenbaum to serve the remainder of Saxbe's term.

Taft resigned the seat a few days before his term ended, allowing Metzenbaum to be sworn in a few days early and hence have a small edge in seniority over other senators newly elected in 1976.

Metzenbaum's cousin, James Metzenbaum, was a prominent Ohio attorney who wrote a noted text on zoning law and once ran for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court.

Perk had stated that he was counting on running against the incumbent senator, Howard M. Metzenbaum, who had been recently appointed to the seat by then Governor John J. Gilligan.

In 1942, Metzenbaum was nominated by the Democratic party for a seat in the United States House of Representatives.

In 1950, Metzenbaum ran as an independent for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court.

In 1929, Peer and Metzenbaum performed the first manipulation of the caudal septum, where it originates and projects from the forehead.

Metzenbaum served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1943 to 1947.

Hollings later apologized to Metzenbaum and the remarks were stricken from the record.

Metzenbaum was behind several important pieces of legislation, including the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which required warning periods for large factory closures ; the Brady Law, which established a waiting period for handgun purchases ; and the Howard M. Metzenbaum Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994 ( MEPA ) ( U. S. Public Law 103-82 ), which prohibits federally subsidized adoption agencies from delaying or denying child placement on grounds of race or ethnicity.

Metzenbaum's cousin, Howard Metzenbaum served for two decades as a U. S. Senator from Ohio.

* Both U. S. Senators from Ohio: John H. Glenn Jr. ( 1974-1999 ) and Howard M. Metzenbaum ( 1974, 1976-1995 )

Retired Senator Howard Metzenbaum served as Honorary Chairman from 1995 to 2008.

Metzenbaum lost the general election race to Robert Taft, Jr.

Metzenbaum would go on to seek a rematch against Taft in 1976, winning a close race on Jimmy Carter's coattails.

Taft, however, lost six years later in a rematch against Metzenbaum.

But Metzenbaum narrowly lost to Robert Taft, Jr. in the general election.

In 1976, however, Metzenbaum sought a rematch against Taft.

The Democrats selected Howard Metzenbaum to replace Young, but Metzenbaum lost the race to Taft, who was again the Republican nominee.