George Voinovich
George Victor Voinovich (July 15, 1936 – June 12, 2016) was an American politician from the state of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, Voinovich served as a United States Senator from 1999 to 2011, as the 65th governor of Ohio from 1991 to 1998, and as the 54th mayor of Cleveland from 1980 to 1989, the last Republican to serve in that office.
Voinovich spent more than 46 years in public service – first as assistant attorney general of Ohio in 1963, and finally as the senior United States Senator representing Ohio. He is the 15th person to have served as both the governor of Ohio and a U.S. senator and one of only two people to have been the mayor of Cleveland, governor of Ohio and a United States Senator; the other was Frank Lausche, who like Voinovich was of Slovenian descent. He is also the only person to have served as both chairman of the National Governors Association and president of the National League of Cities.
In his 2004 reelection to the U.S. Senate, Voinovich garnered more than 3.4 million votes, nearly 64 percent. ...more on Wikipedia