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Rod Grams, former Minnesota senator, in hospice care
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| Last Edited | RBH Sep 06, 2013 02:03pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - St. Paul Pioneer Press |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 4, 2013 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former U.S. Sen. Rod Grams has entered hospice care following a cancer diagnosis in April 2012.
Grams is in hospice at his home in the east-central Minnesota town of Crown, Kent Kaiser, a longtime GOP activist and spokesman for the Grams family, said Wednesday.
Grams, 65, a Republican and a native of Princeton, Minn., served a single term in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2001. He lost his re-election bid to Democrat Mark Dayton, now Minnesota's governor.
Before entering politics, Grams worked for nearly a decade as lead news anchor for KMSP-TV in the Twin Cities. In 1992, he unseated the incumbent Democratic congressman, Gerry Sikorski, in Minnesota's 6th Congressional District. Grams was elected to the Senate two years later, defeating Democrat Ann Wynia in an open race. |
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