Who made an unsuccessful bid to fill the US Senate seat vacated by the Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007?
Harold Ford Jr. Harold Eugene Ford Jr. (born May 11, 1970) is an American politician and author who served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party from  's 9 congressional district , centered in Memphis, from 1997 to 2007. He is the son of former Congressman Harold Ford Sr., who held the same seat for 22 years. In 2006, Ford made an unsuccessful bid for the US Senate seat vacated by retiring Bill Frist. He is a member of the Ford political family from Memphis. Ford was the last chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).
Bernie Sanders Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician who has been the junior United States Senator from Vermont since 2007. Sanders is the longest serving independent in U.S. congressional history. Since his election to the House of Representatives in 1990, he has caucused with the Democratic Party, which has entitled him to congressional committee assignments and at times given Democrats a majority. Sanders became the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee in January 2015; he had previously been chair of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee for two years.