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...Three times since then, he has tried to regain his seat; three times he failed. His patience paid off Tuesday on his 74th birthday as the Republican won the sentimental votes of thousands of Democrats to edge state senator Charlotte Pritt, an honest-to-goodness coal miner's daughter. When inaugurated next year, Underwood will hold the distinction of becoming both the youngest and oldest governors in state history. As he began his first term in 1956, he was a fresh-faced 34-year-old forced to deal with terrible unemployment caused by mechanization of the coal mines. The state...
...after his father died, was a Democratic politician for a dozen years, switched parties when the First District Congressman retired in 1984, and won the seat that year as a Republican. As a g.o.p. leader in a G.O.P. House, Callahan can count on his reputation as a successful miner of federal funds as being more secure than ever...
Former history teacher Poshard is keeping the Democratic tradition of the 19th alive by lobbying for his farm and coal-miner constituents--disability benefits for those with black-lung disease, research on "clean coal," water projects for agriculture--but he also wants federal spending curbed. It's a political one-two punch likely to keep the likeable Poshard in office another two years...
...iron-ore miner, Oberstar has an unflinching belief in the good of government. He voted against NAFTA, and as a member of the Aviation Subcommittee, he helped arrange KLM's investment in Northwest Airlines and its repair facilities in Duluth and the Iron Range. He parallels his district's conservative values, opposing both gun control and abortion...
Democrats hope that the same Contract with America that helped Cremeans win two years ago--by just two percentage points--will be his undoing this time around: his economically depressed district may not be as excited about fewer government services. But Cremeans, the son of a coal miner and an opponent of abortion and gay rights, says success depends on the individual, and is hoping his mostly working-class constituents still agree...