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Paul Simon

United States senator
Also known as: Paul Martin Simon

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  • presidential election of 1988
    • George H.W. Bush
      In United States presidential election of 1988: The campaign

      Paul Simon. Three candidates who were somewhat more inspiring had decided not to run: former senator Gary Hart of Colorado, who dropped out because of a sex scandal, reentered the race and then dropped out for good; New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley; and New York…

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association with

    • Dukakis
    • Durbin
      • Durbin, Richard J.
        In Dick Durbin

        …to the state’s lieutenant governor, Paul Simon (1969–72), and to the Illinois State Senate Judiciary Committee (1972–82). After unsuccessful runs for a state senate seat in 1976 and for lieutenant governor in 1978, Durbin taught at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (1978–83) while continuing to practice law.

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