Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22 1923) is a retired United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996, serving part of that time as United States Senate Majority Leader. He was the Republican candidate in the 1996 U.S. Presidential election and the Republican vice presidential candidate in the 1976 Presidential election. He holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only man in the history of the two major U.S. political parties to have been his party's nominee for both President and Vice President, but who was never elected to either office.
In 2007, President George W. Bush appointed Dole as a co-chair of the commission to investigate problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, along with Donna Shalala.
