question: Jerry Kilgore was the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia in 2005, but lost to an American attorney who is the junior United States Senator from Virginia, and was a Vice Presidential nominee in what election year?
answer: 2016
context: Title: United States vice-presidential debate, 1976
  Passage: This debate featured U.S. Senator Walter Mondale from Minnesota, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, and U.S. Senator Bob Dole from Kansas, the Republican vice presidential nominee.
  Title: Electoral history of Bob Dole
  Passage: Electoral history of Bob Dole, United States Senator from Kansas (1969–1996), Senate Majority Leader (1985–1987, 1995–1996), Senate Minority Leader (1987–1995), 1976 Republican Party Vice Presidential nominee and 1996 Presidential nominee.
  Title: Judith Jagdmann
  Passage: Judith Williams Jagdmann (born November 3, 1958) is an American attorney who served as the 43rd Attorney General of Virginia.  Elected by the Virginia General Assembly to fill the vacancy of Jerry Kilgore, who resigned to run for Governor, she remained in office until the election of Bob McDonnell.  She currently serves on the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
  Title: West Virginia gubernatorial election, 1996
  Passage: The 1996 West Virginia gubernatorial election took place on November 5, 1996 for the post of Governor of West Virginia.  Republican Cecil Underwood, who had previously been the Governor of West Virginia from 1957-1961, defeated Democratic State Senator Charlotte Pritt.  Concurrently, the state voted the opposite way federally, choosing Democratic U.S. Presidential nominee, incumbent Bill Clinton over Republican nominee Bob Dole in the Presidential election that year.
  Title: Bob Dole
  Passage: Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is an American lawyer and politician who represented Kansas in Congress from 1961 to 1996 and served as the Republican Leader of the United States Senate from 1985 until 1996.  He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election and the party's vice presidential nominee in the 1976 presidential election.
  Title: Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008
  Passage: The 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama, then junior United States Senator from Illinois, was announced on February 10, 2007 in Springfield, Illinois.  After winning a majority of delegates in the Democratic primaries of 2008, on August 23, leading up to the convention, the campaign announced that Senator Joe Biden of Delaware would be the Vice Presidential nominee.  At the 2008 Democratic National Convention on August 27, Barack Obama was formally selected as the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 2008.  He was the first African American in history to be nominated on a major party ticket.
  Title: Jerry Kilgore (politician)
  Passage: Jerry Walter Kilgore (born August 23, 1961) is an American attorney, politician and member of the Republican Party.  He served as the Attorney General of Virginia from 2002 to 2005 and was the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia in 2005, losing to Democratic nominee Tim Kaine.  He is a partner with the law firm Cozen O'Connor and is a member of the firm's leading State Attorneys General practice in Washington, D.C.  He also serves as finance chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia.
  Title: Tim Kaine
  Passage: Timothy Michael Kaine ( , born February 26, 1958) is an American attorney and politician who is the junior United States Senator from Virginia.  A Democrat, Kaine was elected to the Senate in 2012 and was the nominee of his party for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election.
  Title: Virginia Attorney General election, 2005
  Passage: The Virginia Attorney General election of 2005 took place on November 8, 2005, to elect the Attorney General of Virginia.  Jerry Kilgore, who had been elected attorney general in 2001, resigned in February 2005 to run for Governor, as is the tradition in Virginia.  He was replaced by Judith Jagdmann, the Deputy Attorney General for the Civil Litigation Division, who did not run in the election.
  Title: Marco Rubio presidential campaign, 2016
  Passage: The 2016 presidential campaign of Marco Rubio, the junior United States Senator from Florida, and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, was formally announced on April 13, 2015, at an event at the Freedom Tower in Downtown Miami.  Early polling showed Rubio, who was considered a potential candidate for Vice President by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, as a frontrunner candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 2016 since at least the end of the 2012 election.  Rubio was the second Cuban American to run for President of the United States, declaring approximately three weeks after fellow Republican Ted Cruz.  He suspended his campaign on March 15, 2016, after finishing second in the primary for Florida, his home state.  Turning 45 in 2016, Rubio would've been the third youngest president to take office, the others being Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, who took office at ages 42 and 43 respectively.  Rubio would've also been the first president of Latin American culture, as he was born to Cuban parents, as well as the first Florida native to become president.
citations: Jerry Kilgore (politician) Tim Kaine