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Governor Hansen worked to bolster programs to combat [[alcoholism]] and mental illness.<ref>{{cite web|author=Douglas Martin|title=Clifford Hansen, Former Wyoming Governor and U.S. Senator, Is Dead at 97|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/us/politics/22hansen.html|access-date=13 October 2014|publisher=''[[The New York Times''|date=October 21, 200|accessdate=July 23, 2021}}</ref>

Governor Hansen worked to bolster programs to combat [[alcoholism]] and mental illness.<ref>{{cite web|author=Douglas Martin|title=Clifford Hansen, Former Wyoming Governor and U.S. Senator, Is Dead at 97|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/us/politics/22hansen.html|access-date=13 October 2014|publisher=''[[The New York Times''|date=October 21, 200|accessdate=July 23, 2021}}</ref>

After a single term as governor, Hansen ran for the U.S. Senate seat which was being vacated by the retiring Republican [[Milward  Simpson]]. He won that election with just under 52 percent of the vote. In a fairly Republican year nationally, he defeated popular Representative at-large Teno Roncalio, a Democrat of [[Itay|Italian]] extraction. Hansen received 63,548 votes (51.8 percent); to Roncalio, 59,141 (48.2 percent).<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections,'' U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1966.</ref>

After a single term as governor, Hansen ran for the U.S. Senate seat which was being vacated by the retiring Republican [[Milward  Simpson]]. He won that election with just under 52 percent of the vote. In a fairly Republican year nationally, he defeated popular Representative at-large Teno Roncalio (1916-2003), a Democrat of [[Italy|Italian]] extraction. Hansen received 63,548 votes (51.8 percent); Roncalio, 59,141 (48.2 percent).<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections,'' U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1966.</ref>

In 1972, Hansen was reelected to the Senate over Democrat Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015) of Hudson in Fremont County<ref>Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 24, 2021.</ref> 101,314 votes (71.3 percent) to 40,753 (28.7 percent).<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections'', U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1972</ref> Senator Hansen was known for social and fiscal conservatism. He voted against sending to the states the proposed [[Equal Rights Amendment]], which would have codified federal power over the states. He opposed the [[Richard M. Nixon]] administration's deployment of the [[anti-ballistic missile]], a position which put him at odds with then [[United States Secretary of Defense|Defense Secretary]] [[Melvin R. Laird]] of [[Wisconsin]].<ref name="williams">Pete Williams, "Remembering Clifford Hansen," firstread.msnbc.msn.com, October 21, 2009; no longer on-line.</ref>

In 1972, Hansen was reelected to the Senate over Democrat Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015) of Hudson in Fremont County<ref>Mike M. Vinich (1924-2015) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed July 24, 2021.</ref> 101,314 votes (71.3 percent) to 40,753 (28.7 percent).<ref>''Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections'', U.S. Senator from Wyoming, 1972</ref> Senator Hansen was known for social and fiscal conservatism. He voted against sending to the states the proposed [[Equal Rights Amendment]], which would have codified federal power over the states. He opposed the [[Richard M. Nixon]] administration's deployment of the [[anti-ballistic missile]], a position which put him at odds with then [[United States Secretary of Defense|Defense Secretary]] [[Melvin R. Laird]] of [[Wisconsin]].<ref name="williams">Pete Williams, "Remembering Clifford Hansen," firstread.msnbc.msn.com, October 21, 2009; no longer on-line.</ref>