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Daily Archives: October 18th, 2013

House Speaker Tom Foley: 1929–2013

Excerpt: This morn­ing, we lost a leg­end in Wash­ing­ton and U.S. politics. Tom Foley, who served the Ever­green State with dis­tinc­tion in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives for sev­er­al decades, died of com­pli­ca­tions from mul­ti­ple strokes in the ear­ly hours of the day today, his fam­i­ly has announced. He was eighty-four. Foley, the last Demo­c­rat to rep­re­sent […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
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