this year's Senate election: Congressman Richard Ottinger, the Democratic candidate, who has sponsored two pieces of legislation in six years in the House. Republican Senator Charles Goodell, who has sponsored forty-four major pieces of legislation in twenty-two months in the Senate. Conservative nominee James L. Buckley, who has an economic plan for the nineteenth century. Those are your choices on election day: the light weight; the heavy weight; and the dead weight." In the November 1970 election, despite Rockefeller's support and that of the Republican and Liberal parties, Goodell split the liberal vote with Ottinger, and was defeated by Conservative Party candidate Buckley. Goodell finished third, with 24.3 percent of the vote. Goodell would be the last appointed U.S. Senator from New York until 2009, when Kirsten Gillibrand was selected to replace Hillary Clinton, who had been appointed Secretary of State by President Barack Obama. Life after leaving Congress After leaving Congress, Goodell resumed the practice of law. In the mid-1970s, Goodell served as Vice-Chairman, with former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton as Chairman, of President Gerald Ford's committee to draft rules for granting amnesty to Vietnam War-era draft evaders and deserters. Goodell was a resident of Washington, D.C. and Bronxville, New York, until his death on January 21, 1987. He was buried at Lakeview Cemetery in Jamestown. Books Goodell, Charles E. Political Prisoners in America. New York: Random House, 1973. References External links 1926 births 1987 deaths Politicians from Jamestown, New York Military personnel from New York (state) United States Navy personnel of World War II Williams College alumni Yale Law School alumni Quinnipiac University faculty Connecticut lawyers New York (state) lawyers Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Republican Party United States senators from New York (state) Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Writers from New York (state) 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American politicians United States Navy sailors United States Air Force personnel of the Korean War United States Air Force officers