The 1998 United States Senate election in Kansas was held November 3, 1998. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator
Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, diplomat, and member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Fr ...
won re-election to his first full term. Brownback was first elected in a special election held in 1996, when then-Senator
Bob Dole resigned to
campaign
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for
U.S. President, after 27 years in the Senate.
Democratic primary
Candidates
* Todd Covault
* Paul Feleciano, Jr.,
State Senator
Results
Republican primary
Candidates
*
Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, diplomat, and member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Fr ...
, incumbent U.S. Senator
Results
General election
Candidates
*
Sam Brownback
Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, diplomat, and member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Fr ...
(R), incumbent U.S. Senator
* Paul Feleciano (D),
State Senator
Results
See also
*
1998 United States Senate elections
References
{{United States elections, 1998
United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to th ...
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...