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George Felix Allen (born March 8, 1952) is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 67th governor of Virginia from 1994 to 1998 and as a United States senator from Virginia from 2001 to 2007.
Aug 12, 2020 · Yes, it really was 14 years ago yesterday that one of the weirdest incidents in Virginia political history took place — then Senator George Allen (R) calling the Jim Webb (D) campaign’s Indian-American “tracker,” S.R. Sidarth, a weird word – and as it turned out, a racist – namely “macaca.”
Learn about George Allen's achievements as a reform-minded governor and a pro-innovation senator. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, the U.S. House of Representatives, and founded George Allen Strategies.
Incumbent Republican Senator George Allen ran for reelection to a second term but was narrowly defeated by former Secretary of the Navy Jim Webb, who earned 49.6% of the vote to Allen's 49.2%. With a margin of just 0.4%, this election was the closest race of the 2006 Senate election cycle.
- Jim Webb
- 49.59%
- Democratic
- 1,175,606
Jan 15, 1994 · A self-described “Common Sense Jeffersonian Conservative,” Allen had the distinction of holding Thomas Jefferson’s seat in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 to 1991, and represented Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1993.
George Allen, Virginia’s Republican nominee for Senate, has made opposition to automatic reductions in military spending his campaign’s centerpiece. By Jonathan Weisman. The Caucus. Fallout...
Nov 10, 2006 · The George Allen who conceded defeat yesterday in Virginia's nasty U.S. Senate campaign was the one who revitalized Virginia's Republican Party and the one who was considered a...
