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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Mar 26, 2004 09:47pm |
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| News Date | Friday, March 26, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Congressmen Eilberg and Roush Die
The Honolulu Advertiser
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JOSHUA EILBERG (D-PA) [Link]
Joshua Eilberg, a former congressman who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during President Nixon's impeachment hearings and was later convicted on federal charges, has died. He was 83. Three months after his defeat for a seventh congressional term, the Democrat pleaded guilty in 1979 to conflict of interest charges in connection with money he received to obtain a federal grant for Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia. Eilberg was an assistant district attorney before serving six terms as a state representative and six terms as a U.S. representative from Northeast Philadelphia. He did work for immigrants from Northern Ireland, Israel and the Soviet Union.
J. EDWARD ROUSH (D-IN) [Link]
Former Rep. J. Edward Roush, a Democrat who represented northeast Indiana in Congress for 16 years before he was beaten by a 29-year-old Dan Quayle in 1976, died Friday at a nursing home. He was 83. Roush had suffered from Alzheimer's disease. After losing to Quayle, who later became senator and then vice president, Roush was appointed by President Carter to head the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Regional and Intergovernmental Operations. He returned to private law practice in 1979 and retired in 1998. Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said Roush "never lost his sense of place, his gratitude for those who had shared their confidence and friendship with him, and his love for a very supportive family." |
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