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**jomama** · September 22nd, 2023, 12:27 PM

Dick Clark, Iowa senator who shaped policy in Africa, dies at 95

Dick Clark, a former college professor who won a long-shot U.S. Senate campaign in 1972, wooing Iowa voters with help from a folksy walk across the state, and who went on to help shape U.S. foreign policy in Africa during a brief but busy single term in office, died Wednesday at his home in Washington. He was 95.

Mr. Clark, a liberal Democrat, hardly seemed destined for a career making policy on Capitol Hill. Born in his grandmother’s farmhouse in eastern Iowa, he grew up in the back of his parents’ grocery store, where his family hung oil lamps for light and relied on a wood-burning stove and hand-pumped well. He helped pay for his education by baling hay, became one of the first in his family to graduate from college, and joined the faculty at Upper Iowa University in Fayette as a history and political science professor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...95/ar-AA1h4SDU

RIP Senator Dick Clark

**ball7** · September 23rd, 2023, 09:25 PM

Actor and director Malieek Straughter has died due to lung cancer.

https://thethaiger.com/world/news/551381/

September 22nd, 2023, 12:27 PM	#15371
jomama Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Living in Silliness Posts: 26,419 Thanks: 3,341,700 Thanked 306,677 Times in 26,508 Posts	Dick Clark, Iowa senator who shaped policy in Africa, dies at 95 Dick Clark, a former college professor who won a long-shot U.S. Senate campaign in 1972, wooing Iowa voters with help from a folksy walk across the state, and who went on to help shape U.S. foreign policy in Africa during a brief but busy single term in office, died Wednesday at his home in Washington. He was 95. Mr. Clark, a liberal Democrat, hardly seemed destined for a career making policy on Capitol Hill. Born in his grandmother’s farmhouse in eastern Iowa, he grew up in the back of his parents’ grocery store, where his family hung oil lamps for light and relied on a wood-burning stove and hand-pumped well. He helped pay for his education by baling hay, became one of the first in his family to graduate from college, and joined the faculty at Upper Iowa University in Fayette as a history and political science professor. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...95/ar-AA1h4SDU RIP Senator Dick Clark __________________ all the credit goes to original posters Avatar is Roger the Alien

September 23rd, 2023, 09:25 PM	#15372
ball7 Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: MIA Posts: 14,665 Thanks: 62,985 Thanked 196,690 Times in 14,701 Posts	Malieek Straughter Actor and director Malieek Straughter has died due to lung cancer. https://thethaiger.com/world/news/551381/ __________________ Hello, I must be going - Groucho Marx Looking for stills or scenes from the movie Agent BH 44 starring Ian Carmichael.

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