Former Indiana GOP Sen. Richard Lugar has died, according to the Lugar Center. He was 87.
"His loving wife Char, his four sons Mark, Bob, John, and David and their families were with him throughout his short illness in the hospital," the center's announcement read.Lugar, a longtime Republican senator and foreign policy leader, served in the Senate from 1977 to 2013. He was unseated in a 2012 primary and went on to helm the Lugar Center, whose work focuses in part on nonproliferation.
— Senator Mike Braun April 28, 2019 Purdue University President and former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who served for years as Lugar's chief of staff before becoming governor, said in a statement later Sunday that Lugar was"not just the finest public servant I will ever know, he was the finest person."Read More"He embodied all we can hope for in our leaders: brilliance of mind, purity of motive, stainless in character, tireless in the pursuit of duty.
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