Former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania Dies

Former U.S. Sen. Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania, a civil rights activist who staged an upset Senate win in 1991, has died. He was 92. Wofford died late Monday night of complications from a fall in his Washington, D.C., apartment, his son, Daniel Wofford, said. After his stint in the Senate, he headed President Bill Clinton’s domestic volunteer program. Wofford’s activism in civil rights dated to the 1950s and he was a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr.


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