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Republicans widened their margin in the Senate, while they shaved it down in the House. They picked up open Senate seats in Arkansas, Nebraska and Alabama, which will have two Republican Senators for the first time since Reconstruction, but lost in South Dakota, where Larry Pressler fell to Representative Tim Johnson. Democrats held open seats in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Georgia and dashed G.O.P. hopes for further gains in Montana and Illinois. Gingrich, who on Election Day was privately predicting that he would pick up five seats, kept his balloons in the nets and his head down...
JOHNSON SOUTH DAKOTA...
BORN: July 26, 1958, Madison EDUCATION: U of South Dakota, B.S., 1980 FAMILY: Wife, Stacy; four children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 761, Sioux Falls...
BORN: July 7, 1940, Cando, N. Dak. EDUCATION: Jamestown College, B.A., 1963; U of North Dakota, M.A., 1964; U of Oklahoma, Ph.D., 1969 FAMILY: Wife, Susan Byrd; five children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Economist, professor POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1984- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 85, Lewisville 75067. Tel.: 214-416-4907 Like House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Armey is a professor who started as a political outsider and finds himself at the center of the inside--House Majority Leader. Armey was one of the architects of the Contract with America and embodies the conservatism that brought about the Republican revolution...
BORN: Nov. 4, 1955, Vermillion, S. Dak. EDUCATION: U of South Dakota, B.S., 1990 FAMILY: Wife, Cathy RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Businessman POLITICAL CAREER: Texas House, 1991- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 8277, Woodlands...