I had no idea he was even ill.
Fred Thompson, a former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who also ran for president and was a longtime film and television actor, has died at age 73, the Nashville Tennessean reported on Sunday.
Thompson died on Sunday from a recurrence of lymphoma, the newspaper said, quoting a statement by his family.
“It is with a heavy heart and a deep sense of grief that we share the passing of our brother, husband, father, and grandfather who died peacefully in Nashville surrounded by his family,” the statement said.
The tall, imposing Thompson was elected to the Senate in 1994 and served until 2003. He briefly ran for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.
He worked as an actor before and after his political career, appearing in supporting roles in such films as “No Way Out,” “The Hunt for Red October,” and “Days of Thunder.” His most notable television role was as conservative New York District Attorney Arthur Branch in the long-running “Law and Order” series, in which he appeared from 2002 to 2007.
I remember him, too, from Die Hard 2 and Necessary Roughness. Also, he had quite the way with devastating quips on Twitter.
God speed, Mr. Thompson.
I feared he was ill when Mr. Thompson disappeared from Twitter a few weeks ago.
Damn. Good Man.
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I believe Kipling had teh Fred in mind when he wrote this:
I’d add just one more thing:
If only
If only I could master the html :^(
God keeps snatching up the good ones for himself: Breitbart, Hutch, Tony Snow, list goes on.
Leaving us with Hillary and the entire left-wing cohort.
I guess the Dark Ones are the toughest to kill.
Also great in The Hunt for Red October.
Never mind, missed THRO in the article. Mea culpa.