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Jim Inhofe
Jim Inhofe official portrait
United States Senator
from Oklahoma
Incumbent
Assumed office
November 16, 1994
Serving with James Lankford
Preceded by David Boren
Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office
September 6, 2018[lower-alpha 1]
Preceded by John McCain
Chair of the Senate Environment Committee

In office
January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017
Preceded by Barbara Boxer
Succeeded by John Barrasso

In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by Jim Jeffords
Succeeded by Barbara Boxer
Member of the United States House of Representatives
In office
January 3, 1987 – November 15, 1994
Preceded by James R. Jones
Succeeded by Steve Largent
32nd Mayor of Tulsa

In office
May 9, 1978 – May 8, 1984
Preceded by Robert LaFortune
Succeeded by Terry Young
Member of the Oklahoma Senate
from the 35th district

In office
January 7, 1969 – January 4, 1977
Preceded by L. Beauchamp Selman
Succeeded by Warren Green
Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
In office
January 7, 1967 – January 7, 1969
Preceded by Joseph McGraw
Succeeded by Richard Hancock
Personal details
Born James Mountain Inhofe
November 17, 1934(1934-11-17) (age 89)
Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Kay Kirkpatrick (m. 1959)
Children 4
Website Senate website
Military service
Allegiance United States
Service/branch Flag of the United States Army (1775) United States Army
Years of service 1956–1958
Rank Army-USA-OR-04b Specialist 4

James Mountain Inhofe (/ˈɪnhɒf/; born November 17, 1934) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Oklahoma, a seat he was first elected to in 1994. A member of the Republican Party, he chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2017. Inhofe served as the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district from 1987 to 1994 and as mayor of Tulsa from 1978 to 1984.

Inhofe is known for his rejection of the scientific consensus on climate change.[2] He supports a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and has proposed the Inhofe Amendment to make English the national language of the United States.

Inhofe served as acting chairman of the Armed Services Committee while John McCain fought cancer in 2018. After McCain's death, he became chairman.[3]

Early life, education, and business career[]

Inhofe was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the son of Blanche (née Mountain) and Perry Dyson Inhofe.[4] He moved with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a child. He was a member of the Class of 1953 at Tulsa Central High School,[5] and served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958.[6] Inhofe received a B.A. in economics from the University of Tulsa in 1973.[7] Until his 1994 campaign for the U.S. Senate, Inhofe's official biographies and news articles about him indicated that he had graduated in 1959.[8] Inhofe initially denied the stories that uncovered the discrepancy,[8] but later acknowledged them.[9] After admitting that the stories were true, Inhofe explained that he had been allowed to take part in graduation ceremonies in 1959 though he was a few credits short of completing his degree, and did not finish his coursework until 1973.[10]

Inhofe worked as a businessman for 30 years before becoming a full-time politician.[11] He worked in aviation, as a real estate developer, and in insurance, eventually becoming the president of Quaker Life Insurance Company. During his curatorship, the company went into receivership; it was liquidated in 1986.[12]

Early political career[]

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Inhofe greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1982

State legislature[]

Inhofe became active in Oklahoma Republican politics in the mid-1960s. He was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1967 to 1969, and a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1969 until 1977, the last four of those years as minority leader.

1974 gubernatorial election[]

In 1974, he ran for governor of Oklahoma. In October 1974, then President Gerald Ford visited Oklahoma to campaign for him.[13][14] A late October poll by the Daily Oklahoman showed Boren leading 74%–25%.[15] He lost to Democratic State Representative David Boren 64%–36%. Inhofe won only four counties in the election.[16] He lost 57 pounds during the campaign and was down to 148 pounds.[17]

1976 congressional election[]

See also: United States House of Representatives elections, 1976

In 1976 Inhofe ran for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district. In the Republican primary, he defeated State Senator Frank Keating and Mary Warner, 67%–25%–8%.[18] In the general election, he lost to incumbent Democrat James R. Jones, 54%–45%.[19]

Mayor of Tulsa[]

In 1978 Inhofe was elected mayor of Tulsa, defeating Democrat Rodger Randle, 51%–46%.[20] In 1980 he won reelection unopposed[21] and in 1982 he was reelected with 59% of the vote.[22]

U.S. House of Representatives[]

Elections[]

In 1986, when Representative Jones decided to retire to run for the U.S. Senate, Inhofe ran for the 1st District and won the Republican primary with 54%.[23] In the general election, he defeated Democrat Gary Allison 55%–43%.[24] In 1988 he won reelection against Democrat Kurt Glassco, Governor George Nigh's legal counsel, 53%–47%.[25] In 1990 he defeated Glassco again, 56%–44%.[26] After redistricting, the 1st District contained only two counties, all of Tulsa and some parts of Wagoner. In 1992 Inhofe was reelected with 53% of the vote.[27]

Tenure[]

In 1987 Inhofe voted against President Ronald Reagan's budget, which included tax increases and no increase in defense spending.[28]

He first came to national attention in 1993, when he led the effort to reform the House's discharge petition rule, which the House leadership had long used to bottle up bills in committee.

U.S. Senate[]

Neil Gorsuch and Jim Inhofe

Inhofe meeting with Neil Gorsuch in March 2017

Elections[]

In 1994, incumbent Senator David Boren, who had been serving in the Senate since 1979, agreed to become president of the University of Oklahoma and announced he would resign as soon as a successor was elected. Inhofe was elected Boren's successor in an election cycle that saw the Republican Party take both houses of Congress and the Oklahoma governorship (the latter for only the third time in state history). Inhofe took office on November 16, giving him more seniority than the incoming class of senators. After serving the last two years of Boren's term, he won his first full term in 1996. He was reelected in 2002, 2008 and 2014.

Tenure[]

Fundraising

In the 2008 election cycle, Inhofe's largest campaign donors represented the oil and gas ($446,900 in donations), leadership PACs ($316,720) and electric utilities ($221,654) industries/categories.[29][30] In 2010, his largest donors represented the oil and gas ($429,950) and electric ($206,654) utilities.[31]

The primary PACs donating to his campaigns were Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association ($55,869), United Parcel Service ($51,850), National Association of Realtors ($51,700), National Rifle Association ($51,050) and American Medical Association ($51,000). Additionally, if company-sponsored PACs were combined with employee contributions, Koch Industries would be Inhofe's largest contributor, with $90,950 (less than 0.6% of total contributions), according to the Center for Responsive Politics.[30][32]

Armed Services Committee

As a member of the Armed Services Committee, Inhofe was among the panelists questioning witnesses about the 2004 Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse, saying he was "outraged by the outrage" over the revelations of abuse. Although he believed that the individuals responsible for mistreating prisoners should be punished, he said that the prisoners "are not there for traffic violations ... they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents".[33][34] In 2006, Inhofe was one of only nine senators to vote against the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which prohibits "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of individuals in U.S. Government custody.[35][36]

When chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain was absent seeking medical treatment for brain cancer from December 2017, Inhofe became acting chairman of the committee. During this time, Inhofe helped secure the passage of the record $716 billion National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019.[37][38] McCain died in August 2018, and Inhofe lauded him as his "hero". Inhofe also said that McCain was "partially to blame for" the White House's controversial decision to raise flags back to full mast after less than two days, as McCain previously "disagreed with the President in certain areas and wasn't too courteous about it".[39]

On March 6, 2019, Inhofe said he intends to put language in the next defense authorization act to reinforce Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement and reintroduce severe sanctions on Tehran.[40]

Committee assignments

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CODEL James Inhofe during a visit to Kiev, Ukraine, October 27–28, 2014

Inhofe, as of the 115th Congress, is a member of the following committees:

Caucus memberships

  • International Conservation Caucus
  • Senate Army Caucus
  • Senate Diabetes Caucus
  • Senate General Aviation Caucus
  • Senate Rural Health Caucus
  • Senate Tourism Caucus
  • Sportsmen's Caucus

Ideology and opinions[]

Inhofe is the most conservative member of both the House and Senate, according to the 2017 GovTrack report card.[41]

Environmental issues[]

Early years; 2003 Chair of Environment and Public Works committee[]

Before the Republicans regained control of the Senate in the November 2002 elections, Inhofe had compared the United States Environmental Protection Agency to a Gestapo bureaucracy,[42][43] and EPA Administrator Carol Browner to Tokyo Rose.[44] In January 2003, he became Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and continued challenging mainstream science in favor of what he called "sound science", in accordance with the Luntz memo.[43]

Climate change denial[]

Since 2003, when he was first elected Chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Inhofe has been the foremost Republican promoting arguments for climate change denial in the global warming controversy. He famously said in the Senate that global warming is a hoax, and has invited contrarians to testify in Committee hearings, and spread his views via the Committee website run by Marc Morano, and through his access to conservative media.[45][2] In 2012, Inhofe's The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future was published by WorldNetDaily Books, presenting his global warming conspiracy theory.[46] He said that, because "God's still up there", the "arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous."[47][48][49] However, he says he appreciates that this does not win arguments, and he has "never pointed to Scriptures in a debate, because I know this would discredit me." His opposition to climate action is as much based on concerns about over-regulation of businesses, and he has shown ability to work with his Senate opponents on other issues: in 2003 he co-sponsored legislation to protect the Kemp's ridley sea turtle.[50]

As Environment and Public Works chairman, Inhofe gave a two-hour Senate floor speech on July 28, 2003, in the context of discussions on the McCain-Lieberman Bill.[51] He said he was "going to expose the most powerful, most highly financed lobby in Washington, the far left environmental extremists", and laid out in detail his opposition to attribution of recent climate change to humans, using the word "hoax" four times, including the statement that he had "offered compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax" and his conclusion that "manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people".[52][53] He supported what he called "sound science", citing contrarian scientists such as Patrick Michaels, Fred Singer, Richard Lindzen and Sallie Baliunas as well as some mainstream scientists. Two of these, Tom Wigley and Stephen Schneider, later issued statements that Inhofe had misrepresented their work.[53][54]

On July 29, the day after his Senate speech, Inhofe chaired an Environment and Public Works hearing with contrarian views represented by Baliunas and David Legates, and praised their "1,000-year climate study", then involved in the Soon and Baliunas controversy, as "a powerful new work of science". Against them, Michael E. Mann defended mainstream science and specifically his work that they and the Bush administration disputed in the hockey stick controversy.[51][55] During the hearing Senator Jim Jeffords read out an email from Hans von Storch saying he had resigned as editor-in-chief of the journal that published the Soon and Baliunas paper, as the peer review had "failed to detect significant methodological flaws in the paper" and the critique by Mann and colleagues was valid.[55][56]

In a continuation of these themes, Inhofe had a 20-page brochure published under the Seal of the United States Senate reiterating his "hoax" statement and comparing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to a "Soviet style trial". In a section headed "The IPCC Plays Hockey" he attacked what he called "Mann's flawed, limited research."[57][58] The brochure restated themes from Inhofe's Senate speech, and in December 2003 he distributed copies of it in Milan at a meeting about the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, where he met "green activists" with posters quoting him as saying that global warming "is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people". He signed a poster for them,[43] and thanked them for quoting him correctly. In an October 2004 Senate speech he said, "Global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people. It was true when I said it before, and it remains true today. Perhaps what has made this hoax so effective is that we hear over and over that the science is settled and there is a consensus that, unless we fundamentally change our way of life by limiting greenhouse gas emissions, we will cause catastrophic global warming. This is simply a false statement."[57][59] In January 2005 Inhofe told Bloomberg News that global warming was "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state", and that carbon dioxide would not be restricted by the Clear Skies Act of 2003.[60][61][62] In a Senate Floor "update", he extended his argument against Mann's work by extensively citing Michael Crichton's fictional thriller State of Fear, mistakenly describing Crichton as a "scientist".[63] On August 28, 2005, at Inhofe's invitation, Crichton appeared as an expert witness at a hearing on climate change, disputing Mann's work.[57]

In his 2006 book The Republican War on Science, Chris Mooney wrote that Inhofe "politicizes and misuses the science of climate change".[64] During a July 2006 heat wave Inhofe said that the environmentalist movement reminded him of "the Third Reich, the Big Lie": "You say something over and over and over and over again, and people will believe it, and that's their strategy."[62][65]

In a September 2006 Senate speech Inhofe argued that the threat of global warming was exaggerated by "the media, Hollywood elites and our pop culture". He said that in the 1960s the media had switched from warning of global warming to warning of global cooling and a coming ice age, then in the 1970s had returned to warming to promote "climate change fears".[66] In February 2007 he told Fox News that mainstream science increasingly attributed climate change to natural causes, and only "those individuals on the far left, such as Hollywood liberals and the United Nations", disagreed.[67]

In 2006 Inhofe introduced Senate Amendment 4682 with Kit Bond (R-MO), which would have modified oversight responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers. The League of Conservation Voters, an environmentalist group, said analyses for corps projects "have been manipulated to favor large-scale projects that harm the environment."[68] During the 109th Congress Inhofe voted to increase offshore oil drilling, to include provisions for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the House Budget Amendment, and to deny funding for both low-income energy assistance and environmental stewardship, citing heavy costs and unproven programs.[68]

In May 2009 Inhofe gave support to the idea that black carbon is a significant contributor to global warming.[69]

Inhofe has received monies from the fossil fuel industry. For example: "Exxon's beneficiaries in Congress include the Oklahoma senator Jim Inhofe, who called global warming a hoax, and who has received $20,500 since 2007, according to the Dirty Energy Money database maintained by Oil Change International." [70][71]

Climatic Research Unit email controversy[]

On November 23, 2009, as the Climatic Research Unit email controversy emerged, Inhofe said the emails confirmed his view that scientists were "cooking the science".[72][73] On December 7 on the CNN program The Situation Room, Inhofe said that the emails showed that the science behind climate change "has been pretty well debunked"; the fact checking organization PolitiFact concluded that Inhofe's statement was false.[74] On the same day, Inhofe said he would lead a three-man "truth squad" consisting of himself and fellow senators Roger Wicker and John Barrasso to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Inhofe was unable to secure meetings with any negotiators or delegations to the conference and only met with a small group of reporters.[75][76][77][78] The minority group of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works prepared a report on "the CRU Controversy", published in February 2010, which listed as "Key Players" 17 scientists including Mann and Phil Jones. Inhofe said it showed that the controversy was "about unethical and potentially illegal behavior by some of the world's leading climate scientists."[79][80] On May 26 Inhofe formally requested that the Inspector General of the United States Department of Commerce investigate how the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had dealt with the emails, and whether the emails showed any wrongdoing; it found no major issues or inappropriate actions.[81][82]

Global warming temperatures[]

In July 2010 Inhofe said, "I don't think that anyone disagrees with the fact that we actually are in a cold period that started about nine years ago. Now, that's not me talking, those are the scientists that say that." The Union of Concerned Scientists said that Inhofe was wrong, pointing to a NOAA report indicating that the summer of 2010 had so far been the hottest on record since 1880. Inhofe added, "People on the other side of this argument back in January, they said, 'Inhofe, it has nothing to do with today's or this month or next month. We're looking at a long period of time. We go into twenty year periods.'"[83][84][85]

During a House committee hearing in 2011, Inhofe testified, "I have to admit—and, you know, confession is good for the soul ... I, too, once thought that catastrophic global warming was caused by anthropogenic gases—because everyone said it was."[86] Under questioning from committee member Jay Inslee, Inhofe dismissed the notion that he was less knowledgeable than climate scientists, saying that he'd already given "five speeches on the science."[86]

2015: Chair of Environment and Public Works committee[]

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Inhofe holding a snowball on the U.S. Senate floor.

On January 21, 2015, Inhofe returned to chairing the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works as part of a new Republican majority in the Senate. In response to NOAA and NASA reports that 2014 had been the warmest year globally in the temperature record, he said, "we had the coldest in the western hemisphere in the same time frame", and attributed changes to a 30-year cycle, not human activities.[87] In a debate on the same day about a bill for the Keystone XL pipeline, Inhofe endorsed an amendment proposed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, "Climate change is real and not a hoax", which passed 98–1. Inhofe clarified his view that "Climate is changing and climate has always changed and always will. There is archaeological evidence of that, there is biblical evidence of that, there is historical evidence of that", but added, "there are some people who are so arrogant to think they are so powerful they can change climate."[88]

On February 26, 2015, Inhofe brought a snowball to the Senate floor and tossed it before delivering remarks in which he said that environmentalists keep talking about global warming even though it keeps getting cold.[89]

Hydraulic fracturing[]

On March 19, 2015, Inhofe introduced S.828, "The Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands (FRESH) Act." The bill would transfer regulatory power over hydraulic fracturing from the federal government to state governments. In his announcement of the bill, Inhofe said that hydraulic fracturing has never contaminated ground water in Oklahoma.[90] The U.S. senators from seven states (Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Dakota and Texas) cosponsored the bill.[91]

Paris Agreement[]

Inhofe co-authored and was one of 22 senators to sign a letter[92] to President Donald Trump urging him to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Inhofe has received over $529,000 from the oil and gas industry since 2012.[93]

Political positions and controversies[]

Immigration[]

Inhofe wrote the Inhofe Amendment to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006, which was debated in Congress in May 2006. The amendment would make English the national language of the United States and require that new citizens take an English proficiency test. The amendment was passed on May 18, 2006, with 32 Democrats, one independent, and one Republican dissenting. The measure had 11 cosponsors, including one Democrat.[94]

LGBT rights[]

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Inhofe pointing at a large photograph of his family, proclaiming none have been divorced or LGBT

Inhofe has generally been seen as overtly hostile by LGBT advocacy groups, earning a 0% in every one of his terms on Human Rights Campaign's position scorecard.[95] Inhofe is in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, against adding sexual orientation to the definition of hate crimes, and voted against prohibiting job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.[96] Inhofe's office has said he "does not hire openly gay staffers due to the possibility of a conflict of agenda."[97]

Inhofe campaigned for his Senate seat in 1994 using the phrase "God, guns, and gays."[98][99] In 2008, his campaign was noted by the Associated Press for running an ad with "anti-gay overtones" featuring a wedding cake with two male figures on top, fading into his opponent's face.[100]

GI Bill reform[]

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Inhofe (left) shakes hands with Navy Vice Admiral Michael M. Gilday while chairing the House Armed Services Committee in 2019

Inhofe, an initial sponsor of Senator Jim Webb's Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, subsequently withdrew support for this bill to support S 2938, a competing bill that would have provided benefits beyond those offered in Webb's bill.[101] However, Inhofe voted to enact Webb's legislation in June 2008.[102]

Inhofe agreed to support legislation allowing military mental health specialists to talk with veterans about private firearms in an effort to reduce suicides.[103]

Misconduct while piloting an aircraft in 2010[]

Trained by the U.S. Navy, Inhofe is one of the few members of Congress holding a Commercial Airman certificate. In 1994, when he first ran for the U.S. Senate, he used his plane as a daily campaign vehicle to travel throughout Oklahoma and visit almost every town in the state.[104] He has been influential in Senate and Congressional debates involving aircraft regulation.[105]

On October 21, 2010, at the age of 75, Inhofe landed his Cessna on a closed runway at a south Texas airport, scattering construction workers who ran for their lives. In a recorded telephone call, the men's supervisor told the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that Inhofe "scared the crap out of" the workers, adding that the Cessna "damn near hit" a truck. And the airport manager, also speaking to the FAA in a recorded telephone call, opined: "I've got over 50 years flying, three tours of Vietnam, and I can assure you I have never seen such a reckless disregard for human life in my life. Something needs to be done. This guy is famous for these violations."[106]

In response to the incident, Inhofe stated that he "did nothing wrong", and accused the FAA of "agency overreach" and causing a "feeling of desperation" in him. He agreed to take a remedial training program, and the FAA agreed not to pursue legal action against him if he took the program. In July 2011, Inhofe introduced a bill to create a "Pilot's Bill of Rights", which he said would increase fairness in FAA enforcement actions.[107] The bill was passed in 2012.[108]

Taxpayer-funded travel[]

Inhofe states that he has made over 140 trips to Africa over about 20 years and helped to get United States Africa Command established.[109] Inhofe has made multiple foreign trips, especially to Africa, on missions that he described as "a Jesus thing" and that were paid for by the U.S. government. He has used these trips for activities on behalf of The Fellowship, a Christian organization.[110] Inhofe has said that his trips included some governmental work but also involved "the political philosophy of Jesus, something that had been put together by Doug Coe, the leader of The Fellowship ... It's all scripturally based." Inhofe used his access as a Senator to pursue religious goals.[111]

Federal disaster relief[]

Inhofe has consistently voted against federal disaster relief, most notably in the case of relief for the 24 states affected by Hurricane Sandy.[112] However, he argues for federal aid when natural disasters hit Oklahoma.[113] In defense of his decision to vote against a relief fund for Hurricane Sandy, but not in Oklahoma after tornadoes ravaged the state in May 2013, he claimed the situations were "totally different" the difference being the Sandy funding involved "Everybody getting in and exploiting the tragedy that took place. That won't happen in Oklahoma."[114] Inhofe pointedly did not thank President Obama for his attention to the tragedy in his state, so as to not be compared to Chris Christie.[115]

2016 Presidential election[]

Early during the Republican Party presidential primaries in 2016, Inhofe endorsed fellow Republican John Kasich.[116] Since Trump's election, he has voted 94.2% of the time in line with the President's position.[117]

Gun control[]

In the aftermath of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Inhofe blamed the "culture of sanctuary cities" rather than lax gun control legislation for the shootings.[118]

Israel Anti-Boycott Act[]

In October 2017, Inhofe co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (s. 720), which made it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories if protesting actions by the Israeli government.[119][120]

Conflict of interest stock purchases[]

In December 2018, Inhofe bought $50,000 to $100,000 worth of stock in Raytheon, a major defense contractor that has billions of dollars' worth of contracts with the Pentagon. The week before, he had successfully lobbied the Trump administration to increase military spending. Ethics watchdogs said the purchase raised conflict of interest concerns, and noted that members of Congress are not allowed to purchase stocks on the basis of information that is not publicly available. Inhofe sold the stock shortly after reporters asked him about the purchase. He said the purchase was made by a third-party adviser who manages Inhofe's investments on his behalf.[121]

Personal life[]

In 1959, Inhofe married Kay Kirkpatrick, with whom he has four children.[122][123]

On November 10, 2013, Inhofe's son, Dr. Perry Inhofe, died in a plane crash in Owasso, Oklahoma, flying alone for the first time since training in a newly acquired plane.[124]

Inhofe was the first recipient of the U.S. Air Force Academy's Character and Leadership Award for his character and leadership in public service.[125]

Electoral history[]

Republican primary results [126]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Jim Inhofe 88,594 58.7
Republican Denzil D. Garrison 62,188 41.2
Total votes 150,782 100.00
1974 Oklahoma gubernatorial election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic David Lyle Boren 514,389 63.9
Republican Jim Inhofe 290,459 36
Majority
Turnout
Democratic hold Swing

[126]

Oklahoma's 1st congressional district Republican primary election, 1986
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican James Inhofe 19,575 54%
Republican Bill Colvert 10,577 29%
Republican Joan Hastings 5,956 17%
Oklahoma's 1st congressional district Republican primary election, 1992
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican James Inhofe (inc.) 36,354 67%
Republican Richard Bunn 17,339 32%
Oklahoma's 1st congressional district: Results 1986–1992[127]
Year Democratic Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct Third party Votes Pct
1986 Gary D. Allison 61,663 43% James Inhofe 78,919 55% Carl McCullough Jr. (Ind.) 3,455 2%
1988 Kurt G. Glassco 93,101 47% James Inhofe 103,458 53%
1990 Kurt G. Glassco 59,521 44% James Inhofe 75,618 56%
1992 John Selph 106,619 47% James Inhofe 119,211 53%
U.S. Senate Republican primary election, 1994
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican James Inhofe 159,001 78%
Republican Tony Caldwell 45,359 22%
U.S. Senate Republican primary election, 1996
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican James Inhofe (inc.) 116,241 75%
Republican Dan Lowe 38,044 25%
U.S. Senate Republican primary election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican James Inhofe (inc.) 116,371 84%
Republican Evelyn Rogers 10,770 8%
Republican Ted Ryals 7,306 5%
Republican Dennis Lopez 3,800 3%
U.S. Senate Republican primary election, 2014
Party Candidate Votes % +%
Republican James Inhofe (inc.) 231,291 88%
Republican Evelyn Rogers 11,960 5%
Republican Erick Paul Wyatt 11,713 4%
Republican Rob Moye 4,846 2%
Republican Jean McBride-Samuels 3,965 2%
Oklahoma Senator (Class II): Results 1990–2014[127][128]
Year Democratic Votes Pct Republican Votes Pct Third party Votes Pct Third party Votes Pct Third party Votes Pct
1994 Dave McCurdy 392,488 40% James Inhofe 542,390 55% Danny Corn (Ind.) 47,552 5%
1996 James Boren 474,162 40% James Inhofe 670,610 57% Bill Maguire (Ind.) 15,092 1% Agnes Marie Regier (Lib.) 14,595 1% Chris Nedbalek (Ind.) 8,691 1%
2002 David Walters 369,789 36% James Inhofe 583,579 57% James Germalic (Ind.) 65,056 6%
2008 Andrew Rice 527,736 39% James Inhofe 763,375 57% Stephen Wallace (Ind.) 55,708 4%
2014 Matt Silverstein 234,307 29% James Inhofe 558,166 68% Joan Farr (Ind.) 10,554 1% Ray Woods (Ind.) 9,913 1% Aaron DeLozier (Ind.) 7,793 1%

See also[]

  • Politics of Oklahoma
  • List of United States Senators from Oklahoma
  1. ↑ Served as acting chairman in the absence of John McCain from December 2017 – September 6, 2018.[1]

References[]

  1. ↑ How the oldest Senate ever is taking a toll on the business of Washington
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 John S. Dryzek; Richard B. Norgaard; David Schlosberg (August 18, 2011). The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-956660-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=JihhbdpO-yoC&pg=PA153. "The single most prominent Republican when it comes to climate change denial is Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe, famous for claiming in a Senate speech that global warming is 'the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.' " 
  3. ↑ Tritten, Travis J. (September 5, 2018). "Jim Inhofe named chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee, replacing John McCain". Washington Examiner. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/jim-inhofe-named-chairman-of-senate-armed-services-committee. Retrieved September 5, 2018. 
  4. ↑ Kestenbaum, Lawrence. "The Political Graveyard: Presbyterian Politicians in Oklahoma". http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/presbyterian.html. 
  5. ↑ Andrea Eger, "Central grads to be honored", Tulsa World, November 12, 2000.
  6. ↑ "INHOFE, James Mountain - Biographical Information". http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=I000024. 
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