George McGovern, the former U.S. Senator and 1972 Democratic nominee for president, died early Sunday. He was 90.
McGovern had been moved to hospice care last Monday. His death was announced in a statement from his family.
From the New York Times:
To the liberal Democratic faithful, Mr. McGovern remained a standard-bearer well into his old age, writing and lecturing even as his name was routinely invoked by conservatives as synonymous with what they considered the failures of liberal politics…
Elected to the Senate in 1962, Mr. McGovern left no special mark in his three terms, but he voted consistently in favor of civil rights and antipoverty bills, was instrumental in developing and expanding food stamp and nutrition programs, and helped lead opposition to the Vietnam War in the Senate…
That was the cause he took into the 1972 election, one of the most lopsided in American history. Mr. McGovern carried only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia and won just 17 electoral votes to Nixon’s 520.
RELATED: TPM slideshow of McGovern’s life and career.
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