Bob Dole, former Senate Majority Leader and presidential candidate, has died at the age of 98.
Bob Dole, the Republican from Kansas who served in the Senate from 1969 to 1996 before making a presidential run, died in his sleep on Sunday morning, according toFoundation, a group dedicated to military families. Dole’s widow Elizabeth created the foundation in 2012 after serving as a senator from North Carolina from 2003 to 2009.Bob Dole’s career in politics began in 1950, at the Kansas House of Representatives. Ten years later he went to Washington, D.C. representing Kansas’s 6th District.
While in the Senate, Dole served in many key positions, eventually becoming Senate Majority Leader. In 1976 he was President Gerald Ford’s running mate after then-Vice President Nelson Rockefeller retired. The duo lost toDole was in early rounds of contention as a presidential candidate in 1980 and 1988, and finally won the party’s endorsement in 1996.
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