Hal Daub | |
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| Chair of theSocial Security Advisory Board | |
| In office 2002–2006 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Mark Weinberger |
| Succeeded by | Mark Warshawsky |
| 48thMayor of Omaha | |
| In office January 1995 – January 2001 | |
| Preceded by | P. J. Morgan |
| Succeeded by | Mike Fahey |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNebraska's2nd district | |
| In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1989 | |
| Preceded by | John Cavanaugh |
| Succeeded by | Peter Hoagland |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Harold John Daub Jr. (1941-04-23)April 23, 1941 (age 84) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Washington University (BS) University of Nebraska–Lincoln (JD) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Army |
| Years of service | 1966–1968 |
Harold John Daub Jr. (born April 23, 1941) is an American lawyer and politician fromNebraska who served four terms in theUnited States House of Representatives and as the 48th Mayor ofOmaha, Nebraska. In 2012, Daub was elected to the Board of Regents of theUniversity of Nebraska system. He is a member of theRepublican Party.
Born atFort Bragg, nearFayetteville, North Carolina, where his father was stationed in the military, Daub grew up inNorth Omaha. He graduated fromBenson High School before receiving hisB.S. fromWashington University in St. Louis, in 1963, and hisJ.D. from theUniversity of Nebraska College of Law inLincoln, Nebraska in 1966. He served in theUnited States Army as an infantry captain from 1966 to 1968 in Korea.[1] Daub is aDistinguished Eagle Scout.[2] Daub settled in Omaha, where he went into private practice of law.
After moving to Omaha, Daub became active in the Republican Party.
He ran for theUnited States House of Representatives in the Omaha-based2nd congressional district in 1978, losing to incumbentDemocratJohn J. Cavanaugh III. Cavanaugh declined to run for re-election in 1980 and Daub ran for the seat again, defeating Democrat Richard Fellman.[3] Daub was reelected three times, in 1982, 1984, and 1986.
In March 1987, Nebraska's seniorU.S. SenatorEdward Zorinsky, a Democrat, died of a heart attack andGovernorKay A. Orr appointed businessmanDavid Karnes to fill the seat. Daub challenged Karnes in the Republican primary for election to a full term in the Senate in1988, but lost by nine points to Karnes, who then lost the general election to former Democratic GovernorBob Kerrey. In1990, Daub challenged the state's other Democratic senator,J. James Exon, for reelection, easily winning the Republican nomination, but losing the general election by a substantial margin to Exon.
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court JusticeClarence Thomas, worked as an assistant for Daub in the 80s. Their families had known each other previously. Thomas eventually became Daub's legislative director.[4][5]
In 1995, Daub won a special election forMayor of Omaha following the resignation of Mayor P.J. Morgan, and was narrowly elected to a full term in1997, both times defeatingcity councilwomanBrenda Council. In2001, he was defeated for reelection by insurance executiveMike Fahey in a close race. Daub then served as a member of theSocial Security Advisory Board from 2002 to 2006 and joined Missouri-based law firm Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP (now Husch Blackwell) in 2005.
In2007, Daub briefly ran for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by SenatorChuck Hagel; he exited the race to offer an early endorsement toMike Johanns, formerNebraska governor andUSDA secretary, who won the seat.[6]
In 2008, Daub announced he was running again for Mayor of Omaha in the2009 election. In the April 2009 primary, he received the most votes;[7] however, in the May 2009 runoff election, he lost toJim Suttle, with unofficial final results of 48.7% to 50.7%.[8] In that election, Democrats also gained control of the city council.
Daub served for five years on the board of Omaha's Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority (MECA). In 2012, he was elected to the board of regents of theUniversity of Nebraska system. In 2018, he was defeated in his reelection bid by Barbara Weitz.
Daub has held several lobbyist positions including at Blackwell Sanders LLP, andDeloitte.[9]
Currently, Daub is a member of the ReFormers Caucus ofIssue One.[10]
As a University regent, Daub called for football players to be removed from theNebraska Cornhuskers because theyknelt during the national anthem in 2017 as a protest against police violence. Daub later denied having calling for the players' removal.[11] CoachMike Riley said that Daub's view of the protest as unpatriotic was a misinterpretation.[12]
When senatorJulie Slama reported in 2022 that she had been sexually assaulted byCharles Herbster, Daub remarked that he wanted to put Slama on a witness stand because "I'd like to ask her what she was wearing."[13] He was publicly criticized for this, and for saying that Slama "was trying to attract Herbster's attention because she was trying to get reelected in her own right," at the gathering where she says she was assaulted.[14][15]
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNebraska's 2nd congressional district 1981–1989 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by Nancy Hoch | Republican nominee forU.S. Senator fromNebraska (Class 2) 1990 | Succeeded by |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by | Mayor of Omaha 1995–2001 | Succeeded by |
| U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial) | ||
| Preceded byas Former U.S. Representative | Order of precedence of the United States as Former U.S. Representative | Succeeded byas Former U.S. Representative |
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