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By Jon Brodkin, Network World | Government, Carly Fiorina, craig benson Add a new comment

August 27, 2009, 1:52 PM — Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina is preparing to run for a U.S. Senate seat in California. (See report.) She's not the first tech executive or inventor to turn political. Let's take a look at some previous techies-turned-politicians.

Carly Fiorina

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Jon Brodkin is a Senior IT Reporter at Ars Technica. Formerly, he wrote about Microsoft, Google, browsers, operating systems, smartphones, cloud computing, virtualization and a whole lot of other tech stuff for Network World. Follow him on Twitter @jbrodkin.