Question: Jim Slattery, who served in the House of Representatives, was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator in 2008. What is the name of the republican that won this election?

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Claude R. Porter: Claude Rodman Porter (July 8, 1872 – August 17, 1946) was a member of the Iowa General Assembly, United States Attorney, and perennial Democratic runner-up to Republican victors in three races for Iowa governor and six races for U.S. senator.  In an era in which Republicans in Iowa won so often that Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver remarked that "Iowa will go Democratic when Hell goes Methodist," Porter twice came closer to winning the governorship than all but one other Democratic candidate of that era.  He later served as a member of the U.S. Interstate Commerce Commission for eighteen years.

United States Senate election in Kansas, 2008: The 2008 United States Senate election in Kansas was held on November 4, 2008.  Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Pat Roberts won re-election to a third term.

United States Senate election in Alaska, 2008: The 2008 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 4, 2008.  Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator and former President pro tempore Ted Stevens ran for re-election to a seventh term in the United States Senate.  It was one of the ten Senate races that U.S. Senator John Ensign of Nevada, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, predicted as being most competitive.  The primaries were held on Tuesday, August 26.  Ted Stevens was challenged by Democratic candidate Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage.

United States Senate election in Utah, 2012: The 2012 United States Senate election in Utah took place on November 6, 2012, concurrently with the 2012 U.S. presidential election as well as other elections to the United States Senate and House of Representatives and as various state and local elections.  Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch won re-election to a seventh term against former state Senator and IBM executive, Scott Howell the Democratic candidate.

Mike Slattery (politician): Mike Slattery is a Democratic former member of the Kansas House of Representatives.  While in the legislature Mike represented the 24th district.  He served from 2009-2013, and is the son of Jim Slattery, who served the 2nd District of Kansas from 1983-1995.  Mike was the youngest elected member of the Kansas Legislature during his tenure, and the only Democrat to defeat an incumbent in the Kansas House of Representatives in 2008.

Carol Moseley Braun: Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.  She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois.  She was the only female U.S. Senator from Illinois until Tammy Duckworth who became the U.S. Senator from Illinois in January 2017.  From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand.  She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.  Following the public announcement by Richard M. Daley that he would not seek re-election, in November 2010, Braun began her campaign for Mayor of Chicago.  The former Senator placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the February 22, 2011, election to Rahm Emanuel.

United States Senate election in Indiana, 2010: The 2010 United States Senate election in Indiana took place on November 2, 2010, alongside 33 other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections to fill Indiana's class III United States Senate seat.  Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Evan Bayh decided in February 2010 to retire instead of seeking a third term shortly after former U.S. Senator Dan Coats announced his candidacy for Bayh's contested seat.  No Democratic candidate submitted enough signatures by the deadline to run, leading Democratic officials to choose U.S. Congressman Brad Ellsworth to be the nominee.  The Libertarian Party nominated YMCA instructor Rebecca Sink-Burris, who had previously run against Evan Bayh in the United States Senate election in Indiana, 1998 but with less success than in this election.  Republican nominee and former U.S. Senator Dan Coats won the open seat.

Jim Slattery: James Charles Slattery (born August 4, 1948) is an American politician.  He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995 representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district as a Democrat, was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1994 and was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senator in 2008.

Irene Griffin: Irene T. Griffin (July 25, 1899 – April 1983) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly.  She served one year in the Legislature, but became a bit of a perennial candidate, losing three races for the Assembly, two for the Senate, and one for Congress.  Griffin first ran for the State Assembly in 1942, but lost the Republican primary to future U.S. Senator Clifford P. Case, future State Senator Kenneth Hand, and two others.  When Case ran for Congress in 1944, Griffin ran again and won the nomination and the election.  She did run for a second term in 1945, but sought the Republican nomination for State Senator in 1947, losing to hand in the primary.  She ran again for Assembly in 1951, but lost the primary to incumbent Florence P. Dwyer.  She again challenged Dwyer in 1956, this time in a primary for the U.S. House of Representatives; she lost and Dwyer went on to unseat an incumbent in the general election.  She ran for the Assembly in 1957, upsetting the frontrunner, Nelson Stamler in the Republican primary.  She lost the General Election to Democrat Mildred Barry Hughes.  Griffin lost a State Senate primary in 1962 to Stamler, who had since been elected Assemblyman.  In 1967, she lost a Republican primary for State Assembly to Hugo Pfaltz and Peter J. McDonough by a 2-1 margin.

Kansas gubernatorial election, 1994: The Kansas gubernatorial election of 1994 included Republican Bill Graves who won the open seat vacated by the pending retirement of Governor Joan Finney.  He defeated Jim Slattery.

Supporting paragraphs: Jim Slattery United States Senate election in Kansas, 2008
Answer: Pat Roberts