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  Ex-Rep. Jontz dies in Oregon
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Last EditedMadViking  Apr 15, 2007 01:35am
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News DateSunday, April 15, 2007 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionINDIANANAPOLIS - Jim Jontz, whose environmental activism sparked a political career that led him to three terms in Congress, has died, his stepfather said.

Jontz died Saturday afternoon at his home in Portland, Ore., said his stepfather, Paul A. Lennon of Indianapolis. He was 55.

Jontz had lived in Oregon since 1999.

He was diagnosed two years ago with advanced colon cancer that had spread to his liver and had been at home under hospice care this month, said his sister, Mary Lee Turk.

Jontz, a Democrat, was 35 when he was elected in 1986 to his first of three terms in Congress. A liberal who took on environmental causes such as protecting the Pacific Northwest's old-growth forests, he represented a largely rural swath of northern Indiana from southern Lake County through the Kokomo and Marion areas until he lost to Republican Steve Buyer in 1992.
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