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'''Kenneth Barnard Keating''' (May 18, 1900 &ndash;  May 5, 1975) was a [[Moderate Republican]] [[U.S. Senator]] for his native [[New York]] for a single term from 1959 to 1965. Elected in 1958, along with [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee [[Nelson Rockefeller]], another Moderate Republican. Keating succeeded Moderate Republican U.S. senator [[Irving Ives]], who did not seek reelection to a third term To win the seat, Keating defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Frank Hogan, then the New York County District Attorney.<ref name=findagrave/>  
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'''Kenneth Barnard Keating''' (May 18, 1900 &ndash;  May 5, 1975) was a [[Moderate Republican]] [[U.S. Senator]] for his native [[New York]] for a single term from 1959 to 1965. Elected in 1958, along with [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee [[Nelson Rockefeller]], another Moderate Republican. Keating succeeded Moderate Republican U.S. senator [[Irving Ives]], who did not seek reelection to a third term To win the seat, Keating defeated the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Frank Hogan, then the New York County District Attorney.<ref name=findagrave>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6010/kenneth-barnard-keating Kenneth Barnard Keating (1900-1975) - Find A Grave Memorial], Retrieved July 16, 2021.</ref>
    
He was unseated on November 3, 1964, by the Democratic senatorial nominee, former [[United States Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]], a younger brother of the slain [[John F. Kennedy]] who ran over 700,000 votes ahead of Keating.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=36419 NY US Senate Race - Nov 03, 1964]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved August 23, 2021.</ref> In part, Keating was a casualty of the nomination of Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], who lost New York by a wide margin to [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. Keating pointedly did not endorse Goldwater, who ran on a [[conservative]] platform but indicated that he did not vote in the presidential part of the ballot. Some [[liberal]] anti-Kennedy Democrats organized behind Keating.<ref name=bio>Kenneth Keating Biography | HowOld.co, accessed July 16, 2021.</ref>  
 
He was unseated on November 3, 1964, by the Democratic senatorial nominee, former [[United States Attorney General]] [[Robert F. Kennedy]], a younger brother of the slain [[John F. Kennedy]] who ran over 700,000 votes ahead of Keating.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=36419 NY US Senate Race - Nov 03, 1964]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved August 23, 2021.</ref> In part, Keating was a casualty of the nomination of Senator [[Barry Goldwater]] of [[Arizona]], who lost New York by a wide margin to [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. Keating pointedly did not endorse Goldwater, who ran on a [[conservative]] platform but indicated that he did not vote in the presidential part of the ballot. Some [[liberal]] anti-Kennedy Democrats organized behind Keating.<ref name=bio>Kenneth Keating Biography | HowOld.co, accessed July 16, 2021.</ref>  
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==Political life==
 
==Political life==
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After his Senate term, he served stints as U.S. Ambassador to India, where he had served in the war, and then [[Israel]]. Before his Senate term, he was from 1947 to 1959 the [[United States Representative]] for New York's since disbanded Rochester-based 40th congressional district. He was elected to the House in 1946 at the same time as [[Richard M. Nixon]] in [[California]] and John F. Kennedy in Massachusetts.<ref name=findagrave>[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6010/kenneth-barnard-keating Kenneth Barnard Keating (1900-1975) - Find A Grave Memorial], accessdate=July 16, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=400051 NY District 38 Race - Nov 05, 1956]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved August 23, 2021.</ref>
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After his Senate term, he served stints as U.S. Ambassador to India, where he had served in the war, and then [[Israel]]. Before his Senate term, he was from 1947 to 1959 the [[United States Representative]] for New York's since disbanded Rochester-based 40th congressional district. He was elected to the House in 1946 at the same time as [[Richard M. Nixon]] in [[California]] and John F. Kennedy in Massachusetts.<ref name=findagrave/><ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=400051 NY District 38 Race - Nov 05, 1956]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved August 23, 2021.</ref>
    
===U.S. House of Representatives===
 
===U.S. House of Representatives===
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