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He was known as a crusading liberal with a distinctive appearance that included wearing a bow-tie and heavy-rimmed glassesGlasses spectacles or eyeglasses are frames bearing lenses worn in front of the eyes, sometimes for purely aesthetic reasons but normally for vision correction or eye protection. Special glasses are used for viewing 3-D images or virtual reality. Modern g.

Simon, the son of a Lutheran minister, was born in Eugene, OregonEugene is the third largest city in the state of Oregon. It is the county seat of Lane County, Oregon, and is positioned at the south end of the Willamette Valley at the confluence of the McKenzie River and the Willamette River, about 60 miles (97 km) eas and attended the University of OregonThe University of Oregon (UO) is located in Eugene. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class (five students) two years later. The school colors are green and yellow. Former Oregon attorney general Dave Frohnmayer is the president of and Dana CollegeDana College is a college in Blair, Nebraska. The College claims to enroll 560 students. The College's 150- acre campus overlooks the Missouri River Valley. in Blair, Nebraska. He worked as a newspaper editor and publisher in Troy, Illinois, eventually building a chain of fourteen weeklies. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War from 1951 to 1953. Upon his discharge, he began his political career, serving in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1955 to 1963 and in the Illinois State Senate from 1963 to 1968. He was elected lieutenant governor of Illinois in 1968 and served from 1969 to 1973. His 1972 campaign to win the Democratic nomination for governor was upset by Dan Walker.

He then became a professor at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois in 1973 and then at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1973. He resumed his political career and was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974 and was reelected to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1985). He then ran and was elected to the United States Senate in 1984 and was reelected in 1990. After his retirement from politics, he continued to play a role in public life through the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute and as an author. His last book, Our Culture of Pandering, was published in October 2003.

Simon died in Springfield, Illinois following heart surgery at the age of 75. Just four days before, despite being hospitalized and awaiting surgery, he had endorsed Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid in a telephone conference call he conducted from his hospital bed.

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