Custom Search
George S. McGovern, Democratic nominee who lost to Nixon in ’72, dies at 90
Patricia Sullivan
Oct. 21, 2012
George S. McGovern, the three-term senator from South Dakota who carried the Democratic Party’s liberal banner in the Vietnam War era, launched a star-crossed bid for the presidency in 1972, and energized many of the leading Democrats of the past generation, died Sunday at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90.
Family spokesman Steve Hildebrand confirmed the death to the Associated Press. The cause was not disclosed.
Read the full obituary here.
Read Bob Dole on the “man who never gave up.”
Read how McGovern’s candidacy was a landmark for counterculture.
See photos of McGovern’s life here.