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Rep. Ralph Hall (D, then R-TX) dead at 95
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-politics/2019/03/07/ralph-hall-former-congressman-rockwall-dies-95
Ralph Hall, former Rockwall representative who was oldest to serve in U.S. House, dies at 95
Former Rep. Ralph Hall, a political survivor whose career mirrored the massive partisan shift that marked the last 50 years of Texas politics and made him the oldest person to ever serve in the U.S. House, died Thursday. He was 95.
The Rockwall Republican died of natural causes at his home overlooking Lake Ray Hubbard, a spokesman confirmed.
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Hall represented a largely rural northeast Texas district in Congress for 34 years after serving two decades years in other public office before that. He left, in his own way, an indelible imprint on a massive swath from his hometown of Rockwall all the way to Texarkana.
Hall’s longevity — he left office in 2015 at age 91 — was truly for the record books. But that tenure, which included Hall’s switch in 2004 from the Democratic Party to the GOP, also marked the change and end of an era.
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Ralph Hall, former Rockwall representative who was oldest to serve in U.S. House, dies at 95
Former Rep. Ralph Hall, a political survivor whose career mirrored the massive partisan shift that marked the last 50 years of Texas politics and made him the oldest person to ever serve in the U.S. House, died Thursday. He was 95.
The Rockwall Republican died of natural causes at his home overlooking Lake Ray Hubbard, a spokesman confirmed.
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Hall represented a largely rural northeast Texas district in Congress for 34 years after serving two decades years in other public office before that. He left, in his own way, an indelible imprint on a massive swath from his hometown of Rockwall all the way to Texarkana.
Hall’s longevity — he left office in 2015 at age 91 — was truly for the record books. But that tenure, which included Hall’s switch in 2004 from the Democratic Party to the GOP, also marked the change and end of an era.
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Yeah, thanks again for that, Ralph. P.S. You jumped into the soon-to-be-minority (in 2006) so, smooth move... Nonetheless, RIP.
