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Who replaced Gary Hart in the Senate after he declined to seek re-election in 1986?

  • Peter Dominick

  • Tim Wirth

  • George McGovern

  • Bill Armstrong

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Tim Wirth was a Colorado politician who served in the United States Senate from 1987 to 2009. He was elected to the Senate in 1986 to replace Gary Hart, who had declined to seek re-election. Wirth was a member of the Democratic Party and served as the chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1993 to 2001.
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