Actor William Windom Dead at 88.

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13. I always liked him & was wondering what had become of him just the other day.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune has been running a great series to mark the 150th Anniversay of the Dakota War and, as it happens his great-grandfather also named William was a Congressman from Minnesota (a Secretary of the Treasury). Windom, MN is named after him. I thought of the actor because his great-grandfather came up in the series as one of the Congressman who sponsored the bill that banished the Dakota and Winnebago (who had nothing to do with the war) from Minnesota (this law is still on the books).

Kind of poetic that he played a Minnesota Congressman in "The Farmer's Daughter" - though I liked him so much the Congressman he played must have been a Democrat

This is a picture of Congressman Willam Windom