Former Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood Passes Away

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Advertisement Packwood had left the chamber he had entered in 1968 as a 36-year-old upstart by September 1995.

Sen. Wayne L. Morse, a Democrat who had served in the Senate for 23 years, was narrowly defeated by Packwood in his first Senate contest.

Packwood, who was the great-grandson of a participant in the 1857 Oregon Constitutional Convention,continue reading …