May 23, 2006
Former Senator Lloyd Bentsen passes away
The Statesman just put this out:
HOUSTON — Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who represented the state in Congress for 28 years and served as President Clinton's first treasury secretary, died Tuesday morning, his family said. He was 85.Bentsen, the Democratic vice presidential nominee 1988, died at his home in Houston, according to the family
His distinguished political career took him from the humble beginnings of a county office in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1940s to six years in the U.S. House, 22 in the U.S. Senate and two in the Clinton Cabinet, where he was instrumental in directing the administration's economic policy.
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