Thank you so much. FReepers are such good teachers.
I am embarrassed about my lack of knowledge in this area.
Your mistake is understandable. Since 1913, most of the features which made the Senate unique have been eliminated, such that the States’ former ambassadors to DC and to each other have been turned into super-congressmen with longer terms and bigger staffs.
Governors filling vacancies in the Senate merely recalls, for anyone who went to school before 1970, the way it was meant to be.