due to Governor Edgar Herschler's unpopular decision to veto a homeowners tax credit program stating that it would subsidize homeowners who did not need it. Chuck Graves, who was then the party's chairman, criticized the Democratic National Committee for including Wyoming as a state that was too Republican and would be written off during the 1992 presidential election along with Nevada, Idaho, and Utah. During the 2002 elections the national party gave the party $25,000. During the 2006 elections the national party conducted a fifty-state strategy under Chairman Howard Dean's leadership and invested large amounts of money in swing and red states. In 2005 the national committee started sending $10,000 per month for staff support and in 2006 it paid for field and communications directors and invested $100,000 into the party. In the 2006 House election Gary Trauner was narrowly defeated by Representative Barbara Cubin and was the closest the party had come to winning Wyoming's federal House seat since Teno Roncalio won reelection in 1976. During the 2020 election, the party reimagined its presidential preference caucus into the state's first ranked choice voting election. Initially planned as a hybrid in-person and mail-in caucus, due to the COVID-19 pandemic the party eventually shifted to mail-in only format. Ultimately, the 2020 Wyoming Democratic caucus voter turnout was more than double than in 2016. Officials Congressional Gale W. McGee, United States Senator (1959-1977) John J. Hickey, United States Senator (1961-1962) Joseph C. O'Mahoney, United States Senator (1934-1953; 1954-1961) Lester C. Hunt, United States Senator (1949-1954) Henry H. Schwartz, United States Senator (1937-1943) John B. Kendrick, United States Senator (1917-1933) Teno Roncalio, United States Representative from Wyoming's at-large district (1965-1967; 1971-1978) John J. McIntyre, United States Representative from Wyoming's at-large district (1941-1943) Paul Ranous Greever, United States Representative from Wyoming's at-large district (1935-1939) John Eugene Osborne, United States Representative from Wyoming's at-large district (1897-1899) Henry A. Coffeen, United States Representative from Wyoming's at-large district (1893-1895) Morton Everel Post, Delegate to the United States House from Wyoming Territory's at-large district (1881-1885) William Randolph Steele, Delegate to the United States House from Wyoming Territory's at-large district (1873-1877) Stephen Friel Nuckolls, Delegate to the United States House from Wyoming Territory's at-large district (1869-1871) State officials Dave Freudenthal, Governor of Wyoming (2003-2011) Mike Sullivan, Governor of Wyoming (1987-1995) Edgar Herschler, Governor of Wyoming (1975-1987) Jack R. Gage, Governor of Wyoming (1961-1963) John J. Hickey, Governor of Wyoming