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Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on Nov 2, 2015

Former U.S. Senator and attorney Fred Thompson died on Sunday in Nashville after a reoccurrence of lymphona. He was 73. After working as an attorney in Tennessee and later as an attorney and lobbyist in Washington, D.C., Thompson won a special election in 1994 to fill Al Gore’s vacated U.S. Senate seat. “Very few people can light up the room the way Fred Thompson did. He used his magic as a lawyer, actor, Watergate counsel, and United States senator to become one of our country’s most principled and effective public servants,” Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said. Read more on Thompson’s life from The Tennessean.