United States Senate election in New Mexico, 1976
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The 1976 United States Senate election in New Mexico took place on November 3, 1976. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joseph Montoya
was running for re-election to a third term, but lost to Republican Harrison Schmitt
.
Joseph Montoya
Joseph Manuel Montoya was a Democratic U.S. Senator for the State of New Mexico from 1964 until 1977.-Education:...
was running for re-election to a third term, but lost to Republican Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Schmitt
Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt is an American geologist, a retired NASA astronaut, university professor, and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico....
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