August 26, 2009
Aug. 26, 1980:
Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, seeking a third term, is ousted in the Democratic primary by former state Rep. Clark Gruening — the grandson of the senator Gravel unseated in the Democratic primary 12 years earlier, Ernest Gruening.
The Republican nomination goes to Frank Murkowski, a banker, who will win the seat for the GOP in November.
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