http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/updates/FormerDel.senat.htmlFormer Del. senator Bill Roth dies
From staff reports
12/14/2003
Delaware’s longtime former senator, Bill Roth, died late Saturday, friends said today.
Roth, 82, died while visiting his daughter in Washington.
Roth spent more than 30 years in Congress, earning a reputation as a consummate gentleman with a flair for bridging partisan divisions in the U.S. Senate.
“He represented Delaware enormously well,” said former governor and longtime friend Pete DuPont. “We’re all beneficiaries of the Roth IRA, and he was an extraordinarily good senator on economic issues.
“But the best thing about Bill is that he came and talked to us all, he came out with his dogs and he met us at various places and was always willing to chat about every issue you wanted to talk about.”
Glenn C. Kenton, a Wilmington attorney and former Delaware secretary of state, said he saw Roth Friday having lunch with friends in Wilmington and, “He looked fine.”
Roth was defeated in his try for a sixth six-year term in the 2000 election by Democrat Tom Carper.
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