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|term_end7=January 3, 1981

|term_end7=January 3, 1981

|preceded7=Roy Grantham<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47741429/helm-race-outcome-pends/ |title=Helm Race Outcome Pends |first=Ed |last=Kelley |newspaper=[[The Oklahoman]] |page=15 |date=1978-11-09 |access-date=2020-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

|preceded7=Roy Grantham<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47741429/helm-race-outcome-pends/ |title=Helm Race Outcome Pends |first=Ed |last=Kelley |newspaper=[[The Oklahoman]] |page=15 |date=1978-11-09 |access-date=2020-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

|succeeded7=William O'Connor<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47741702/new-senator/ |title=New Senator |newspaper=[[The Oklahoman]] |page=93 |date=1981-01-20 |access-date=2020-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

|succeeded7=William O'Connor<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47741702/new-senator/ |title=New Senator |newspaper=[[The Oklahoman]] |page=93 |date=January 20, 1981|accessdate=March 31, 2020|publisher=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

|birth_date=December 6, 1948

|birth_date=December 6, 1948

|birth_place=Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma

|birth_place=Ponca City, Kay County, Oklahoma

'''Parents''':

'''Parents''':

Robert C. and Coeweene Bryan Nickles

Robert C. and Coeweene Bryan Nickles

|alma_mater=[[Oklahoma State University]<br>at Stillwater (Bachelor of Arts)

|alma_mater=[[Oklahoma State University]]<br>at Stillwater (Bachelor of Arts)

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'''Donald Lee Nickles''', known as '''Don Nickles'''  (born December 6, 1948), is the president of the Nickles Group, a [[Lobbyists|lobbying]] firm in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsok.com/nickles-plans-to-launch-lobbying-venture-group/article/2876952|title=Nickles plans to launch lobbying, venture group |publisher=NewsOK.com |accessdate=December 20, 2014}}</ref> and a [[Republican PartyRepublican]] former [[United States Senator]] for his native [[Oklahoma]]. He served from 1981 until 2005 and was  considered both a fiscal and social [[conservative]]. When he retired from the Senate, he was the longest serving senator from Oklahoma. Initially elected at the age of thirty-one, he remains the youngest Republican ever elected to the Senate.

'''Donald Lee Nickles''', known as '''Don Nickles'''  (born December 6, 1948), is the president of the Nickles Group, a [[Lobbyists|lobbying]] firm in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsok.com/nickles-plans-to-launch-lobbying-venture-group/article/2876952|title=Nickles plans to launch lobbying, venture group |publisher=NewsOK.com |accessdate=December 20, 2014}}</ref> and a [[Republican Party|Republican]] former [[United States Senator]] for his native [[Oklahoma]]. He served from 1981 until 2005 and was  considered both a fiscal and social [[conservative]]. When he retired from the Senate, he was the longest serving senator from Oklahoma. Initially elected at the age of thirty-one, he remains the youngest Republican ever elected to the Senate.

Born and reared in Ponca City in Kay County in northern Oklahoma, he was the son of Robert C. Nichols and the former Coeweene Bryan.<ref>https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=NI005</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwvScLjCam4C&q=Coeweene+Robert+Nichols|title=Who's who in the South and Southwest|date=October 1984|isbn = 9780837908199}}</ref> He attended Ponca City public schools. While studying at [[Oklahoma State University]] at Stillwater, from which he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in business administration in 1971, he and his wife, the former Linda Lou Morrison, operated Don Nickles Professional Cleaning Service there. After college, he worked for Nickles Machine Corporation in Ponca City, a business begun in 1918 by his grandfather, Clair A. Nichols (1887-1984).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NI005.html|title=Nickles, Donald Lee|accessdate=July 3, 2008|author=Dianna Everett|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society, ''The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture}}</ref>

Born and reared in Ponca City in Kay County in northern Oklahoma, he was the son of Robert C. Nichols and the former Coeweene Bryan.<ref>https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=NI005</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VwvScLjCam4C&q=Coeweene+Robert+Nichols|title=Who's who in the South and Southwest|date=October 1984|isbn = 9780837908199}}</ref> He attended Ponca City public schools. While studying at [[Oklahoma State University]] at Stillwater, from which he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in business administration in 1971, he and his wife, the former Linda Lou Morrison, operated Don Nickles Professional Cleaning Service there. After college, he worked for Nickles Machine Corporation in Ponca City, a business begun in 1918 by his grandfather, Clair A. Nichols (1887-1984).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NI005.html|title=Nickles, Donald Lee|accessdate=July 3, 2008|author=Dianna Everett|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society, ''The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture}}</ref>