1. George Nethercutt worked as a clerk for Alaskan federal Judge Raymond Plummer.
21 Facts About George Nethercutt
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George Nethercutt then served as staff counsel and later chief of staff to Senator Ted Stevens from 1972 to 1977 before returning to private practice in Washington State.
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George Nethercutt served as a town attorney for the communities of Reardan, Creston and Almira.
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George Nethercutt was a chair of the Spokane County Republican Party.
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George Nethercutt was the co-founder of the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery.
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George Nethercutt was first elected to Congress in 1994 in a dramatic election in which he unseated the Speaker of the House, Tom Foley.
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In 2000, when his self-imposed three-term limit would have kicked in, George Nethercutt changed his mind and announced his intention to run again, infuriating term-limits supporters.
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George Nethercutt was nevertheless re-elected without much difficulty in 2000 and 2002.
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Rather than running for a sixth term in the House of Representatives, George Nethercutt decided to run for US Senate in 2004, hoping to unseat the incumbent, Senator Patty Murray.
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George Nethercutt was encouraged to run for the seat by President George W Bush.
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Term limits again became an issue in the campaign, as Democrats quickly seized on George Nethercutt's broken term-limits pledge.
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George Nethercutt was hampered by his lack of name recognition in the more densely populated western part of the state, home to two-thirds of the state's population.
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George Nethercutt supported the invasion of Iraq, while Murray opposed it.
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George Nethercutt was a heavy underdog, and his campaign never gained much traction.
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George Nethercutt left the House of Representatives at the end of his term in January 2005, but said that he would probably not completely retire from politics.
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George Nethercutt was the author of the book In Tune with America: Our History in Song.
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George Nethercutt wrote a monthly column for The Pacific Northwest Inlander newspaper, and recorded radio commentaries for several radio stations.
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George Nethercutt was a board member on the Dutch board of JDRF.
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The George Nethercutt Fellowship involves, among other things, a trip to Washington, DC where fellows have the opportunity to see the inner-workings of the United States government.
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George Nethercutt married Mary Beth Socha in 1977, and they had two children.
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George Nethercutt died from progressive supranuclear palsy in Colorado on June 14,2024, at the age of 79.