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{{Officeholder
|name=Byron Dorgan
|image=ByronDorgan.jpg
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=Kim Dorgan
|religion=Lutheran
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=North Dakota
|terms=December 15, 1992 - Present
|preceded=[[Kent Conrad]]
|former=n
|succeeded=
}}
{{Officeholder/representative
|state=North Dakota
|district=At-Large
|terms=January 5, 1981 – December 15, 1992
|preceded=Mark Andrews
|former=n
|succeeded=Earl Pomeroy
}}
}}
'''Byron Dorgan''', born May 14, 1942 (age {{age|1942|5|14}}), is a [[Democratic]] [[United States Senator]] from [[North Dakota]]. He was re-elected to a third term in the Senate in 2004, after serving six terms in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]]. Dorgan has worked with the Democratic Leadership as an Assistant Democratic Floor Leader, and since 1998, as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy committee.<Ref name="bio">http://dorgan.senate.gov/about/biography/</ref> At age 26, he was appointed to the office of State Tax Commissioner in North Dakota, and became the youngest person to hold that position. <ref name="bio" /> Dorgan has announced he will not seek reelection in 2010.
Dorgan has voted with a majority of his Democratic colleagues eight-nine percent of the time during the current Congress. <ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/d000432/</ref> In 2005, investigations showed that Dorgan was a beneficiary of some of the largest campaign contributions from [[Jack Abramoff]]'s, a lobbyist convicted of fraud; conspiracy and tax evasion, associates and clients.<Ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/04/AR2005120401158.html</ref>
==External Links==
*[http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Byron_Dorgan.htm Dorgan On the Issues]
*[http://dorgan.senate.gov/ Official Website]
==References==
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[[Category:United States Senators]]
[[Category:Democratic Party]]
[[Category: 110th United States Congress]]
[[Category:111th United States Congress]]