Duane Sand, Date of Birth
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Naval officer
Date of Birth: 08-May-1965
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Duane Sand
- Duane Sand (born May 8, 1965) is a Navy Captain, businessman and a North Dakota politician.
- He is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy, and was a U.S.
- Navy officer during the Iraq War.
- Sand ran for the United States Senate in North Dakota on the Republican ticket in 2000 against incumbent Kent Conrad of the Democratic-Nonpartisan League, and was called for duty after the election in 2001.
- Upon returning, he ran for North Dakota's lone House seat in 2004 and 2008, but failed both times to defeat incumbent Earl Pomeroy.
- In August 2011, Sand announced his bid to become the 2012 Republican nominee for the same Senate seat he ran for 11 years prior.
- He lost the Republican nomination to Representative Rick Berg.
- Sand previously served as the North and South Dakota Director for Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group.
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