In which year did this United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio orbit the Earth for the first time who won the Senate election in Ohio in 1974?
United States Senate election in Ohio, 1974 The 1974 United States Senate election in Ohio took place on November 3, 1974. It was concurrent with elections to the United States House of Representatives. Incumbent Democratic U.S Senator Howard Metzenbaum was running for re-election his first full term after he was appointed in 1970 by Ohio governor John J. Gilligan to fill out the Senate term of William B. Saxbe, who had resigned to become United States Attorney General. Metzenbaum lost the primary election to John Glenn, who went on to win the general election and win every county in the state.
Myron B. Gessaman Myron Bierdeman Gessaman (October 15, 1894 – August 20, 1975) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Ohio and a veteran of the United States Army during World War I. He served as mayor of Columbus, a prosecutor and judge of Franklin County, and as a member and floor leader of the Ohio House of Representatives.