Florida Congressman Young Dies at 82

U.S. Congressman Bill Young - the longest serving Republican in the House of Representatives - has died at the age of 82. The Florida representative since he was first elected in 1970 died Friday evening, just a week after he announced he would retire and not seek a 23rd term next year. His chief of staff said Young died at a hospital just outside Washington where he had been for nearly two weeks with back problems related to a 1970 small plane crash. As the former chairman of the powerful ...

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