name the senators who left to run for 'lower' office....

[WalterMitty]

maybe pbrunsel can hel with this list:

senators who left to run for governor:

pete wilson
lawton chiles
richard nixon, though he made a pit stop in the vice presidency first.

i can only think of one senator who left and later became a house member--claude pepper.

[minionofmidas]

maybe pbrunsel can hel with this list:

senators who left to run for governor:

pete wilson
lawton chiles
richard nixon, though he made a pit stop in the vice presidency first.

i can only think of one senator who left and later became a house member--claude pepper.

Was John Q Adams a Senator at one point? Because he later was a House Member. I may be mistaken, but I think Henry Clay's last House term was well past his first Senate term.

[WalterMitty]

oops i also forgot jon corzine.

[minionofmidas]

Right on both!

CLAY, Henry, (1777 - 1852)
Senate Years of Service: 1806-1807; 1810-1811; 1831-1842; 1849-1852
Party: Democratic Republican; National Republican; Whig

CLAY, Henry, (father of James Brown Clay), a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; (...)elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Adair and served from November 19, 1806, to March 3, 1807, despite being younger than the constitutional age limit of thirty years; member, State house of representatives 1808-1809, and served as speaker in 1809; again elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Buckner Thruston and served from January 4, 1810, to March 3, 1811; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1811, to January 19, 1814, when he resigned; Speaker of the House of Representatives (Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses); elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1821); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses); elected to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Congresses and served from March 3, 1823, to March 6, 1825, when he resigned; again served as Speaker of the House of Representatives (Eighteenth Congress); appointed Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams 1825-1829; elected as a National Republican to the United States Senate on November 10, 1831, to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1831; reelected as a Whig in 1836 and served from November 10, 1831, until March 31, 1842, when he resigned; (...) again elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 29, 1852 (...)

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ADAMS, John Quincy, (1767 - 1848)
Senate Years of Service: 1803-1808
Party: Federalist

ADAMS, John Quincy, (son of John Adams, father of Charles Francis Adams, brother-in-law of William Stephens Smith), a Senator and a Representative from Massachusetts and 6th President of the United States; (...)elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1803, until June 8, 1808, when he resigned, a successor having been elected six months early after Adams broke with the Federalist party (...) elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives for the Twenty-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses, becoming a Whig in 1834; served from March 4, 1831, until his death (...)

[© tweed]

Frank Murkowski did this.

[WalterMitty]

Frank Murkowski did this.

true.  how could i forget about old frank.

also, did bob torreceli at least flirt with a bid for governor of the nj, before ethics problems brought him down?

[Joe Republic]

John C. Calhoun resigned the Vice Presidency to join the Senate.  But he considered it to be a move to a higher office, and I suppose in some ways he would be right.

[nini2287]

Sort of the same idea - Former U.S. Rep. Jon Fox (he was voted out of office) ran (and lost) for my state house seat in 2004.

[Keystone Phil]

Sort of the same idea - Former U.S. Rep. Jon Fox (he was voted out of office) ran (and lost) for my state house seat in 2004.

That being the big reason why he decided to run for the State House seat.

also, did bob torreceli at least flirt with a bid for governor of the nj, before ethics problems brought him down?

Torrecelli was looking at running in 2001. His ethics problems didn't bring him down until 2002.

[nini2287]

Sort of the same idea - Former U.S. Rep. Jon Fox (he was voted out of office) ran (and lost) for my state house seat in 2004.

That being the big reason why he decided to run for the State House seat.

I was just realized PA-13 has a very poor record for the former inhabitants

Margolies-Mezvinsky:  Lost Lt. Gov. race
Jon Fox:  Lost state house race
Joe Hoeffel:  Lost Senate race

Maybe Schwartz isn't looking that good in 2010 after all.

[Yates]

Some consider Governor to be a higher office than Senator. 

[nclib]

Frank Murkowski did this.

So did Dirk Kempthorne (Idaho).

[Keystone Phil]

Margolies-Mezvinsky:  Lost Lt. Gov. race
Jon Fox:  Lost state house race


Maybe Schwartz isn't looking that good in 2010 after all.

Those two were from the old PA 13, though. 

[WalterMitty]

lowell weicker is another one.

although, he involuntarily left his senate seat.

[Yates]

Frank Murkowski did this.

So did Dirk Kempthorne (Idaho).

Yes.  I do not understand why he gave up a lifelong Senate seat for a mere eight years as Governor.

[nini2287]

Frank Murkowski did this.

So did Dirk Kempthorne (Idaho).

Yes.  I do not understand why he gave up a lifelong Senate seat for a mere eight years as Governor.

Maybe they just like to be closer to home/spend more time with the family (although Frank shipped his off to DC).

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Jerry Brown likes trying out offices high and low, but he was never US Senator.

[7,052,770]

don't forget former VP Mondale trying to run for the senate in '02 I believe

[PBrunsel]

Senator William Knowland ran for California Governor in 1958, but was defeated in a landslide by Jerry Brown.

[socaldem]

thus, I would argue that any state that has more than 8-10 re

Senator William Knowland ran for California Governor in 1958, but was defeated in a landslide by Jerry Brown.

And I don't think I would consider California governor a lower office than senator... being governor of a large population states (particularly one with 1/5 the U.S. population) is much more important than being one of two representatives for that state in a body of 100.    Though, of course, when Knowland left the senate CA had a lot less clout than when Pete Wilson did....

In any case, I'd say the governorship of a state with 10 or more reps. is more importnt than being senator...  there must be a formula for this....

[RBH]

This probably doesn't count but..

Rep. James Barcia (D-MI) ran for the MI State Senate in 2002 after redistricting put him in the same district as Dale Kildee