Conrad Ray Burns (born January 25, 1935) is a lobbyist and former United States Senator from Montana. He is only the second Republican to represent Montana in the Senate since the passage in 1913 of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and is the longest-serving Republican senator in Montana history.While in the Senate, Burns sat on the Senate Appropriations Committee and was the chairman of its Subcommittee on the Interior.