The Democratic senator decided that 'it is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter who will carry on this work for our great state.'
member, announced Monday that he will not be seeking a ninth term in 2022, the Associated Press reported.
The 81-year-old's decision will end a political era that began with his first election to the Senate in 1974, when he became the last of the group referred to as Watergate babies elected after former President Richard Nixon resigned from office, AP reported. During his long tenure of nearly half a century, Vermont transitioned from a highly Republican state to one of the most progressive in the U.S.
Matthew Dickinson, a political science professor at Middlebury College, said a likely choice to succeed Leahy would be Democratic Representative Peter Welch, the state's lone member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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