Ted Stevens, 1923-2010 It has now been confirmed:

Ted Stevens, 1923-2010

It has now been confirmed: Ted Stevens, the former senator from Alaska, died in a plane crash on Monday night near Dillingham. The 87-year-old served in the Senate from 1968 until 2008, when he lost amidst a corruption investigation that was later thrown out. There was initially much confusion over; he was the longest-serving Republican in Senate history. Five of the plane's nine passengers died. In 1978, Stevens survived a plane crash that killed his first wife.

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