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Walter Darlington " Dee " Huddleston (April 15, 1926 – October 16, 2018) was an American commercial broadcaster and politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the United States Senate from 1973 to 1985. He was defeated for re-election in 1984 by Mitch McConnell by 5,269 votes.
Oct 17, 2018 · Walter D. Huddleston, a two-term Democratic senator from Kentucky whose hairsbreadth loss in a rancorous re-election campaign put Mitch McConnell on the road to becoming a Republican power in...
Oct 16, 2018 · LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Walter “Dee” Huddleston, a former two-term U.S. senator who lost his re-election bid in 1984 to Republican Mitch McConnell in one of Kentucky’s most storied and pivotal political campaigns, died Tuesday.
Oct 16, 2018 · Walter “Dee” Huddleston, whose improbable political career took him to Washington for two terms in the United States Senate, died Tuesday in Warsaw, Kentucky. He was 92 years old.
Oct 16, 2018 · LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Walter "Dee" Huddleston, a former two-term U.S. senator who lost his re-election bid in 1984 to Republican Mitch McConnell in one of Kentucky's most storied and pivotal...
Oct 17, 2018 · Former Kentucky U.S. Sen. Walter “Dee” Huddleston has died at the age of 92. Huddleston was a Democrat who won two statewide campaigns to represent Kentucky in the Senate before he was unseated in a third contest by Mitch McConnell in 1984.
Oct 16, 2018 · Walter "Dee" Huddleston, a former two-term U.S. senator from Kentucky who lost his re-election bid to Republican Mitch McConnell in 1984, has died. He was 92. Huddleston's son, Steve, said his father died in his sleep early Tuesday in Warsaw, Kentucky.
