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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 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.

'''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; information no longer on-line}}</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.

==Background==

==Background==