About Clifford Hansen
Clifford Peter Hansen was an American politician from the state of Wyoming. A Republican, he served as the 26th governor of Wyoming from 1963 to 1967 and subsequently as a United States senator from 1967 to 1978. He served as a member of the board of trustees from 1946–1966 to his alma mater, the University of Wyoming located in Laramie. He was also a county commissioner in Jackson, the seat of Teton County in northwestern Wyoming. Before his death on October 20, 2009, he was the oldest living former U.S. senator as well as the third oldest living former U.S. governor. Hansen won the governorship in the 1962 mid-term elections by 10,000 votes. First, Hansen won the GOP primary over two opponents with 57 percent of the ballots. He won that election with just under 52 percent of the vote.
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