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His rise in the House of Representatives ended in 1980, after he was convicted of taking a $50,000 bribe in an FBI sting operation.
Author: Harrison Smith
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Barbara Everitt Bryant, first woman to oversee census, dies at 96
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Appointed to run the agency just before the 1990 census, she sought to modernize the bureau while navigating criticism over the undercounting of minorities.
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Lois Curtis, artist and advocate for disability rights, dies at 55
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She was the lead plaintiff in a Supreme Court case that gave people with disabilities the right to get community-based care instead of being institutionalized.
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David Beckwith, who scooped Supreme Court on Roe v. Wade, dies at 79
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After working as a journalist at Time magazine, he became the inaugural editor of the Legal Times in Washington and a spokesman for Dan Quayle.
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Stephen Glasser, co-founder of the Legal Times newspaper, dies at 79
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He and his wife started the Washington-based weekly in 1978. The newspaper was among the first to focus on lawyers and the legal profession.
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Rick Reed, who crafted Swift boat ads attacking John Kerry, dies at 69
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The GOP media strategist wrote and produced commercials challenging John F. Kerry’s war record, and later worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Ken Bode, political reporter who moderated ‘Washington Week,’ dies at 83
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He also worked in Democratic politics and was dean of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.
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Don Young, dean of the House of Representatives, dies at 88
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The gruff Alaska Republican — in the U.S. House since 1973 — brought an outpouring of federal dollars to his state and was investigated several times for ethics issues.
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Max Cleland, Vietnam War veteran who led VA and served in Senate, dies at 79
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Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, he served one term as a Georgia Democrat before losing reelection in a campaign that centered on national security after Sept. 11, 2001.