McDaniel, Rodger
Rodger McDaniel is a former Wyoming legislator (1971-1981). He was the Democratic Party nominee for the United State Senate in 1982. Rodger received a law degree from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Divinity degree from the Iliff School of Theology. He was the director of Habitat for Humanity operations in Nicaragua in 1991-1992. Rodger is the pastor at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming where he lives with his wife Patricia.
There was a time when Wyoming and other Rocky Mountain and midwestern states were as likely to elect a liberal Democrat to Congress as they were a conservative Republican. Gale McGee (1915–92) was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958, at the height of American liberalism. He typified what Teddy...