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After his discharge from the Army, Wallop began ranching, and entered politics in 1969 as a state representative from Sheridan. From 1973 to 1976, he was a state senator.<ref name=NYTobit/>
After his discharge from the Army, Wallop began ranching, and entered politics in 1969 as a state representative from Sheridan. From 1973 to 1976, he was a state senator.<ref name=NYTobit/>
In 1974, Wallop sought the Republican [Governor|gubernatorial]] nomination,<ref name=NYTobit/> but was defeated by his state Senate colleague, [[Dick Jones (Wyoming politician)|Richard R. "Dick" Jones]], a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County in northwestern Wyoming. Jones went on to lose the [[general election]] in a heavily [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] year to Edgar Jacob Herschler (1918-1999) of Kemmerer in Lincoln County in southwestern Wyoming.
In 1974, Wallop sought the Republican [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nomination,<ref name=NYTobit/> but was defeated by his state Senate colleague, [[Dick Jones (Wyoming politician)|Richard R. "Dick" Jones]], a trucking executive from Cody and Powell in Park County in northwestern Wyoming. Jones went on to lose the [[general election]] in a heavily [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] year to Edgar Jacob Herschler (1918-1999) of Kemmerer in Lincoln County in southwestern Wyoming.
In 1976, a nationally Democratic year, [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]], still defeated [[Jimmy Carter]] in Wyoming, and Wallop unseated three-term Democratic U.S. Senator Gale William McGee (1915-1992) with 55 percent of the vote. <ref name=NYTobit/>His election advertising depicted a cowboy riding across the range with a portable toilet on top of a pack horse.<ref name=vacav/>
In 1976, a nationally Democratic year, [[Gerald Ford|Gerald R. Ford, Jr.]], still defeated [[Jimmy Carter]] in Wyoming, and Wallop unseated three-term Democratic U.S. Senator Gale William McGee (1915-1992) with 55 percent of the vote. <ref name=NYTobit/>His election advertising depicted a cowboy riding across the range with a portable toilet on top of a pack horse.<ref name=vacav/>