David Karnes, Omaha civic leader, briefly U.S. senator, dies
David Karnes, an Omaha civic leader who was briefly a U.S. senator, has died at the age of 71.
Karnes died Sunday of cancer in Boston, where he was undergoing a clinical trial, The Omaha World-Herald reported.
In March 1987, then-Gov. Kay Orr shocked Nebraska Republicans by appointing Karnes to fill the unexpired terms of Democrat Ed Zorinsky, who had died of a heart attack. Karnes was 38 at the time and had never run for office.
He sought a full term in 1988 but lost to Democrat Bob Kerrey and never again sought political office.
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