Ted Stevens

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Not only Alaska but the country lost another great one!

 

Stevens, 4 others die in plane crash

 

As the bodies of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four other victims of Monday's plane crash were returned to Anchorage, federal officials on Tuesday began their investigation into why the single-engine floatplane flew into a mountain north of Dillingham.

 

http://www.adn.com/2010/08/10/1404123/troopers-id-victims-of-crash-that.html

[emkay64]

I don't trust those stupid small planes..

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Senate Years of Service: 1968-2009

 

Party: Republican

 

http://justbs.us/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://bioguide.congress.gov/bioguide/photo/S/S000888.jpg&key=2a1ee0a6e636ebd4f10ab1e7cdec23a82dbc602e11232d0cb587bdf41ead0400STEVENS, Theodore Fulton (Ted), a Senator from Alaska; born in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., November 18, 1923; attended Oregon State College and Montana State College; graduated, University of California, Los Angeles 1947; graduated, Harvard Law School 1950; served in the United States Army Air Corps in the Second World War in China 1943-1946; admitted to the bar in California in 1950, to the District of Columbia bar in 1951, and to the Alaska bar in 1957; practiced law in Fairbanks, Alaska 1953; legislative counsel, Department of Interior, Washington, D.C., 1956; assistant to the Secretary of the Interior 1958; chief counsel, Department of the Interior 1960; returned to Anchorage, Alaska, in 1961 and practiced law; elected to State house of representatives in 1964; reelected in 1966, serving as speaker pro tempore and majority leader; appointed on December 24, 1968, as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of E.L. Bartlett, and was subsequently elected in a special election on November 3, 1970, to complete the unexpired term ending January 3, 1973; reelected in 1972, 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996 and 2002, and served from December 24, 1968, to January 3, 2009; Republican whip (1977-1985); president pro tempore (2003-2007); chair, Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee (Ninety-fourth Congress), Select Committee on Ethics (Ninety-eighth and Ninety-ninth Congresses), Committee on Rules and Administration (One Hundred Fourth Congress [January 3, 1995-September 12, 1995]); Committee on Governmental Affairs (One Hundred Fourth Congress [september 12, 1995-January 2, 1997]), Committee on Appropriations (One Hundred Fifth and One Hundred Sixth Congresses, One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001], One Hundred Eighth Congress); Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (One Hundred Ninth Congress); indicted by a federal grand jury on July 29, 2008, for making false statements on financial disclosure forms; was convicted on October 27, 2008, but on April 7, 2009, a federal judge dismissed the conviction, citing prosecutorial misconduct; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 2008; died as a result of a plane crash on August 9, 2010.

 

Dates of Service

 

Dec 24, 1968 to Jan 3, 2009

 

Length of Service

 

40 years, 10 days

 

http://bioguide.cong...l?index=S000888

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I don't trust those stupid small planes..

I hear ya. Those puddle jumpers.

[Phreakwars]

The irony of surviving one plane crash, just to be killed in another.

 

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Yeah ain't that about a bitch?