Democrat Herbert Kohl, owner of the Milwaukee...
Democrat Herbert Kohl, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Assn., defeated Susan Engeleiter, the state Senate Republican leader, to become a U.S. senator.
Kohl pumped nearly $6 million of his grocery-chain fortune into his Wisconsin campaign to succeed retiring Sen. William Proxmire.
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