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Nov 2 2015, 8:50 am ET
Folksy Ex-Senator and 'Law & Order' Actor Fred Thompson Dies at 73
by M. Alex Johnson
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, the Watergate investigator-turned-actor-turned national political figure, died Sunday at 73 from lymphoma, with which he had struggled for more than a decade, his family said.
Thompson, a towering, burly man with a deep, Southern-inflected voice, parlayed his fame as a key investigator of the Watergate scandal into a TV and movie career before he was elected to finish the Senate term of Al Gore of Tennessee, who vacated the seat when he became vice president.
Thompson, a Republican, was elected to the seat in his own right in 1996. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/folksy-ex-senator-law-order-actor-fred-thompson-dies-73-n455421
Folksy Ex-Senator and 'Law & Order' Actor Fred Thompson Dies at 73
by M. Alex Johnson
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, the Watergate investigator-turned-actor-turned national political figure, died Sunday at 73 from lymphoma, with which he had struggled for more than a decade, his family said.
Thompson, a towering, burly man with a deep, Southern-inflected voice, parlayed his fame as a key investigator of the Watergate scandal into a TV and movie career before he was elected to finish the Senate term of Al Gore of Tennessee, who vacated the seat when he became vice president.
Thompson, a Republican, was elected to the seat in his own right in 1996. He ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/folksy-ex-senator-law-order-actor-fred-thompson-dies-73-n455421