Alan K. Simpson, Acerbic Yet Approachable US Senator, Dies at 93

Alan Simpson

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Alan K. Simpson, the three-term Republican US senator from Wyoming who worked with Democrats to overhaul federal immigration law in 1986 and lead a deficit-reduction commission in 2010, has died. He was 93.

He died on Friday in Cody, Wyoming, after struggling to recover from a broken hip he suffered in December, according to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, where he was a board member and former chairman.