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Sun Mar 31, 2024, 07:40 AM Mar 2024

Former US Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts has died at age 82

Source: Associated Press

Former US Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts has died at age 82

BY BRIAN P. D. HANNON
Updated 5:52 AM EDT, March 31, 2024

Longtime U.S. Rep. William D. Delahunt of Massachusetts, a Democratic stalwart who postponed his own retirement from Washington to help pass former President Barack Obama’s legislative agenda, has died following a long-term illness, his family announced.

Delahunt died Saturday at his home in Quincy, Massachusetts, at the age of 82, news reports said.

Delahunt served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1997 to 2011, for Massachusetts’s 10th congressional district. He also was the Norfolk County district attorney from 1975 to 1996 after serving in the Massachusetts House of Represenatives from 1973 to 1975.

The Delahunt family issued a statement Saturday saying he passed away “peacefully,” but did not disclose his specific cause of death, news reports said.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/william-delahunt-death-massachusetts-0af7e0f737cf83ce46b0ea810a474341

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Former US Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts has died at age 82 (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2024 OP
I remember William Delahunt well. Fought the good fight for us. sueh Mar 2024 #1
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