Gaylord Kent Conrad was born on March 12, 1948, in Bismarck, N.D., to Gaylord and Abigail Conrad. When Conrad was five years old, he survived a car accident that killed both of his parents.

The public needs to accept that there are no easy solutions to the nation's budget crisis, said Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., on This Week with Christiane Amanpour on Jan. 23, 2011. "The American ...

Sen. Kent Conrad has been the Democrats’ balanced-budget guy for more than a decade, and the job takes a toll. His wife paints the North Dakotan as a lonely Cassandra with Power Point slides ...

WASHINGTON - Former North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad is mourning the death of Dakota, his beloved dog and best friend. Reached from his Washington home on Sunday night, Conrad said the bichon frise ...

Democrat Kent Conrad, a four-term incumbent from North Dakota, says he will not seek reelection in 2012, giving Republicans their first big chance to pick up a Senate seat in the next election.

Kent Conrad, a Democrat, represented North Dakota in the Senate from 1987 to 2013. The Post's Oct. 20 editorial on the budget challenge ["A fiscal quid pro quo"] made important points but was way ...

FARGO - Kent Conrad sent tremors through North Dakota's political landscape when he announced on Jan. 18, 2011, he would not seek a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.

North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad is going up on the radio with a 60-second campaign ad next week, signaling that even if he hasn't made up his mind on running again in 2012, he's not taking any ...

Former Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, one of President Barack Obama’s first allies in his 2008 presidential bid, said Wednesday that the president is “more detached” than he would like.

Kent Conrad - North Dakota's senior senator who's been influential in the health care reform debate - refused to answer directly Tuesday whether he is willing to break party lines on the issue of ...

We are stunned and outraged by the utterly false and fundamentally dishonest characterization of Sen. Kent Conrad in the recent book excerpt published in Politico Magazine, “Confessions of a ...