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A conversation with Senator Paul Wellstone
with Paul Wellstone on Jul 16, 2001
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with Paul Wellstone on Jul 16, 2001
Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002) was an American politician and two-term U.S. Senator from Minnesota. He was a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and was a professor of political science at Carleton College before being elected to the Senate in 1990. Wellstone was a liberal and a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party.
He served in the Senate from 1991 until his death in a plane crash on 25 October 2002, in the 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, 106th, and 107th congresses. His wife, Sheila, and daughter, Marcia, also died in the crash. They had two other grown children, David and Mark, who now co-chair the Wellstone Action nonprofit group.
