The potential scandal may have also contributed to his decision to leave the Senate.

There was no one moment when I decided to leave the Senate.

Lee resumed the practice of law after he left the Senate.

It also helped shape his decision to leave the Senate in 1996.

For some reason, the knowledge that her father had left the Senate was disquieting.

She left the Senate at the end of 2012, having declined to run in that year's election.

But that would still leave the Senate in Republican hands.

Brown left the Senate in 1867 because of ill health.

"Which is why I leave the Senate after next year."

In 2009, he left the Senate upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.