Paul David Wellstone was an American politician and two-term U.S. Senator from Minnesota. He was a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and was a professor of political science at Carleton College before being elected to the Senate in 1990. Wellstone was a liberal and a leading spokesman for the progressive wing of the national Democratic Party. He served in the Senate from 1991 until his death in a plane crash on 25 October, 2002, in the 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, … Wikipedia
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EVELETH, Minnesota (CNN) -- Democratic Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia died Friday in a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, that also killed three staff members and two pilots. www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/25/plane.crash.minn/
Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), his wife and their daughter died tragically in a small plane crash near Eveleth, Minn., on Friday, sending colleagues and friends from both chambers and across the political spectrum into mourning. villagenews.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader%246442
"Mike really believed in the Senate," Wellstone said of his legislative director, Mike Epstein, who would die three days later. villagenews.weblogger.com/stories/storyReader%246453