Dick Ottinger NY State Congress Member Democrat Political Candidate Pinbacks

Description

Richard Lawrence Ottinger
(born January 27, 1929) is an American legal educator and politician from
New York
. A
Democrat
, he served in the
United States House of Representatives
for eight terms, from 1965 to 1971 and from 1975 to 1985.
In the
1970 elections
, he gave up his House seat to run on the Democratic ticket for
United States Senator
from
New York
. In the
1970
election, Ottinger split the liberal vote with the
Republican
(and
Liberal
-endorsed) nominee,
incumbent
Senator
Charles Goodell
(who was appointed by
Governor
Nelson Rockefeller
after the
assassination
of Senator
Robert F. Kennedy
). Both were defeated by the nominee of the
Conservative
party,
James L. Buckley
in a three-way race.
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In
1972
, he sought to return to his old congressional seat, but lost in a hotly contested election to the
Republican
incumbent
Representative
Peter A. Peyser
. His comeback effort was successful in
1974
, when he was elected to the House from a different district. He was re-elected to the four succeeding Congresses (in
1976
,
1978
,
1980
, and
1982
), retiring in 1985.