‘Joe the Plumber,’ who famously confronted Obama on the campaign trail, dead at 49

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, better known as political activist “Joe the Plumber,” is dead at 49.

By Brian Niemietz | New York Daily News Wurzelbacher gained prominence in 2008 when he met then-candidate Barack Obama in Ohio during the future president’s 2008 presidential campaign.

The Republican activist told Obama he was interested in opening a plumbing business and asked how the Democratic candidate’s tax plan would impact that venture. Wurzelbacher’s on-camera questions, along with his everyman demeanor, earned him the Joe the Plumber moniker.

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