Duke University is losing one senator, but gaining a new one.

North Carolina Sen. Elizabeth Dole, a Duke graduate, lost her re-election bid earlier this month.

But on Monday, Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman, another Dookie, was named to the Senate seat in Delaware held by Vice President-elect Joe Biden, Rob Christensen reports.

Kaufman not only graduated from Duke, but since 1991 he has been a senior lecturing fellow at Duke law school while also teaching in the Fuqua School of Business and the Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

Kaufman, 69, has been Biden's chief of staff for 19 years. Kaufman said he would only serve until 2010, leaving open the possibility that Biden’s son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, would run then.

Kaufman once lived in Raleigh years ago, when he worked for Dupont.