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  Hansen, Orval
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NameOrval Hansen
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Born August 03, 1926
DiedNovember 02, 2017 (91 years)
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Info born in Firth, Bingham County, Idaho, August 3, 1926; attended Idaho Falls public schools; United States Navy, 1944-1946, and served in Air Force Reserve until retirement as a lieutenant colonel; B.A., University of Idaho, 1950; J.D., George Washington University, 1954; Rotary Foundation Fellow, London School of Economics, University of London, 1954-1955; LL.M., in 1973 and Ph.D., George Washington University, 1986; private law practice, 1956-1968; elected to the Idaho house of representatives, 1956, reelected 1958 and 1960; house majority leader, 1961-1962; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962; elected to Idaho house of representatives, 1964, and to Idaho State senate, 1966; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; resumed the practice of law; founder and president, Columbia Institute for Political Research, 1977 to present; is a resident of Arlington, Va.


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  08/06/1974 ID District 2 - R Primary Lost 47.63% (-4.75%)
  11/07/1972 ID District 2 Won 69.20% (+42.15%)
  11/03/1970 ID District 2 Won 65.82% (+34.24%)
  11/05/1968 ID District 2 Won 52.59% (+8.71%)
  08/06/1968 ID District 2 - R Primary Won 36.58% (+2.05%)
  11/06/1962 ID District 2 Lost 47.16% (-5.69%)
  06/26/1962 ID District 2 - R Runoff Won 59.76% (+19.53%)
  06/05/1962 ID District 2 - R Primary Won 38.64% (+13.15%)
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