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Slade Gorton, former Washington US senator, dies at 92

by Associated Press
| August 20, 2020 12:06 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — Slade Gorton, a patrician and cerebral politician from Washington state who served as a U.S. Senate Republican leader before he was ousted by the growing Seattle-area liberal electorate in 2000, has died. He was 92.

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