Jack Kemp was the 1996 GOP vice-presidential nominee. " /> Jack Kemp was the 1996 GOP vice-presidential nominee. WASHINGTON -- Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, Republican congressman, one-time vice-presidential selectee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," died yesterday. He was 73.
Kemp died after a over-long illness, according to spokeswoman Bona Park and Edwin J. Feulner, a longtime room-mate and preceding contest adviser. Park said Kemp died at his severely in Bethesda, Md.
Kemp had announced in January that he had cancer. Kemp, a bygone quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving the House for an luckless presidential suggest in 1988. Eight years later, after serving a locution as President George H.W. Bush's container secretary, he made it onto the GOP's jingoistic ticket as Bob Dole's direction mate.
With that loss, the Republican no longer ran for office, but he stayed in politics. In speaking engagements and a syndicated column, he continued to patron for the charge revolutionize and supply-side policies -- the design that the more taxes are cut, the more the conservatism will prosper -- that he pioneered. He also formed a Washington key consulting firm, Kemp Partners, after leaving office. Kemp's impetuous and loquacious mood made the devoted keynoter with the neatly side-parted hoary whisker a favorite on the pontificate circuit, and a millionaire.
Through his bureaucratic life, Kemp's positions spanned the common spectrum: He opposed abortion and supported university prayer, yet he appealed to liberals with his outreach toward minorities and the poor. He pushed for immigration revise to allow for a guest-worker program and standing for the unauthorized immigrants already here.
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