Howard M. Metzenbaum, Democrat, former senator from Ohio, died Wednesday in Florida at the age of 90. His obituary in today’s Washington Post quotes Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) ...

In 1974, Democratic Gov. John J. Gilligan chose Howard Metzenbaum to fill the vacancy left by Republican William Saxbe, who had resigned to become U.S. Attorney General under President Richard Nixon.

More than 10 percent of current senators first entered the chamber through appointment. Their numbers will soon grow.

Those were the words that liberal Democratic senator Howard Metzenbaum snarled at my boss Senator Orrin Hatch just after Bill Clinton announced in May 1994 that he would be nominating Stephen ...

Ohio elected a Jewish lawyer from Cleveland to the U.S. Senate once before -- Howard Metzenbaum, 1976 -- so there is precedent for Eric Fingerhut. Of course, back in Howard's day, the state ...