Walter ‘Dee’ Huddleston, former U.S. Senator, dies at age 92 at son’s home in Warsaw
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Former Kentucky U.S. Senator Walter ‘Dee’ Huddleston has died at age 92 at his son’s home in Warsaw.
Huddleston, a Democrat, began two decades in politics in 1965 in the Kentucky Senate and ran Wendell Ford’s successful campaign for Governor in 1971. He subsequently...
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Walter ‘Dee’ Huddleston, former U.S. Senator, dies at age 92 at son’s home in Warsaw
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