Donald Lee "Don" Nickles (born December 6, 1948) is an American politician who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 until 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and a social conservative. After the Senate, he founded The Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.
Having already announced he won't seek re-election to the Senate, he is looking into opening a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm with fellow retiring Senator John Breaux (D-Louisiana) [January 2004]
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When elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980 at the age of 31, he became the youngest Republican ever elected to the Senate.
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1970 graduate of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater