Former US Senator Hiram Fong Dead at 97 in Hawaii
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HONOLULU, Hawaii  - Hiram Fong, a Hawaiian-born Republican who became the first Asian-American in the US Senate, died on Wednesday at the age of 97 in a Honolulu hospital, family members said.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash. who represented Seattle's conservative east-side suburbs for six terms in Congress, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 66.
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U.S. Rep. Robert Matsui of  California, a top Democrat in Congress re-elected  overwhelmingly in November to a 14th two-year term, has died of  a rare blood disorder, his office said on Sunday. He was 63.
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Hiram L. Fong, an immigrant's son who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American elected to the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday. He was 97.
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Rep. Charles Whitlow Norwood Jr., 65, a Republican from Georgia who tirelessly promoted a patients' bill of rights and who sought stricter immigration policies, died Feb. 13 of cancer and lung disease at his home in Augusta.
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One of Vietnam's best-known dissidents, Hoang Minh Chinh, dies at the age of 85 after a long illness.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday, his family said on Sunday.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President John F Kennedy and a distinguished journalist, has died of a heart attack in the south of France.
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Former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Edward F. McLaughlin Jr., who became close friends with President John F. Kennedy while the two served together in the Navy during World War II, has died. He was 84.
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas  - Richard Kelley, former U.S. President Bill Clinton's stepfather, died on Wednesday at his home in Hot Springs, Arkansas, after a lengthy illness. He was 91.
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Pierre Salinger, press secretary to the late U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and a distinguished journalist, died of a heart attack on Saturday, his family said on Sunday. He was 79.
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Action film star and presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., who refused to concede May's election, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke. He was 65.
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Fernando Poe Jr., the Philippine actor who challenged President Gloria Arroyo in elections earlier this year, died after suffering a stroke on Dec. 11, Susan Tagle, a spokeswoman, said in a statement read out on GMA network radio.
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Rep. Robert T. Matsui of California, who spent time in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans as an infant during World War II and went on to serve 26 years in Congress, has died of complications from a rare disease, his family said Sunday.
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America's oldest person, a 114-year-old woman who voted in every election since women earned the right in 1920 and had the thinnest file in her doctor's office, has died.
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Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, briefly a running mate of Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern until revelations of his treatment for depression forced him out of the race, died on Sunday at age 77, his family said.
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George Burger, a former political consultant who became vice president of the PGA Tour's new FedExCup competition, died of complications from bacterial spinal meningitis. He was 50.