Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican and former Senate Appropriations chairman, dies at 81
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Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican and former Senate Appropriations chairman, dies at 81
By Emily Langer, Obituary writer
May 30 at 11:02 AM
Thad Cochran, a Mississippi Republican who brought Southern gentility to Washington and Washington largesse to the South over nearly four decades in the U.S. Senate, where he was a past chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, died May 30 in Oxford, Miss. He was 81.
His death was announced by the office of U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who succeeded Mr. Cochran in the Senate after he resigned in April 2018. No other details were immediately available.
Mr. Cochran spent nearly half a century on Capitol Hill, first as a House member representing a district that included Jackson, Miss., from 1972 to 1978 and later in the Senate. He narrowly defeated an insurgent tea party challenger — in a primary race that drew national headlines for its nastiness — and went on to win his seventh term in 2014.
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RIP, Thad Cochran.
Passed away peacefully this morning, in Oxford, per the office of his successor.
His last few years might not have been his sharpest, but he was a force inside the chamber for 35 years or so.
Part of the early wave of GOP winning southern Senate seats.
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