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Lowell Weicker, Connecticut’s Maverick Republican Senator, Dies at 92

  • He was last surviving member of Senate Watergate committee
  • Rated the most liberal Republican US senator of his era

Lowell Weicker

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Lowell Weicker, the Republican senator who helped lead the Watergate investigation that resulted in President Richard Nixon’s resignation, has died. He was 92.

Weicker died Wednesday at a hospital in Middletown, Connecticut, the New York Times reported, citing a statement from his family. No cause was given.