Former Illinois congressman Phil Crane dies

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Source: Chicago Tribune

Longtime Illinois Congressman Phillip Crane, a northwest suburban Republican who championed conservative principles and once ran for president, died Saturday in Maryland, according to family.

Crane, who suffered from congestive heart failure and lung cancer, died of respiratory failure in a daughter's home in Jefferson, Md., according to another daughter, Catherine Hott, of Berryville, Va.

Crane, a Republican who served in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 2005, turned 84 last week.

"The best memories we have are summer trips with our father," Hott said. "Every year we went to a different state by a different mode of transport, including camper and house boat. We have unbelievable memories of summer vacations with our father, usually in August when Congress was in recess."

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-phil-crane-obituary-20141109-story.html

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Succeeding Crane in the House: Melissa Bean, Joe Walsh, and Tammy Duckworth.

[lunasun]

1. De mortuis nil nisi bonum

[RufusTFirefly]

2. I remember Phil Crane from way, way back

I was a politically savvy early teen, and even then I thought his campaign buttons were a hoot:



Candidates like Crane could be laughed at back then because they were so obviously out on the fringe. Not any more.

Even so, my condolences go to his family.

[jehop61]

3. wasn't he involved

In a congressional page sex scandal years age, I believe he was reelected anyway

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Seems it was his brother

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_congressional_page_sex_scandal

Did you know there were three Crane brothers in Congress? I missed that one.

[lastlib]

5. We're s'posed to say only good of the dead....

Good--he's dead.

I'm not pissing on his grave--I have better things to do with my piss.