Inhofe went on to win two terms in the U.S. House in the 1980s, before throwing his hat into a bitter U.S. Senate race when longtime Sen. David Boren resigned in 1994 to become president of the ...
In 1994, he seized the opportunity to fill the seat vacated by longtime Senator David Boren, who had resigned to become the president of the University of Oklahoma. Inhofe's victory in the special ...