
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 23, 1991                   TAG: 9102230317
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

JOHN S. COOPER, FORMER SENATOR, DIES

John Sherman Cooper, 89, one of the most respected Republican political leaders of his time and former diplomat and U.S. senator, died of cardiac arrest Thursday at his home in Washington.

Cooper served as a delegate to the United Nations and ambassador to India and East Germany under three different presidents. He also was a member of the Warren Commission that investigated President Kennedy's assassination.

Kentucky sent him to the U.S. Senate five times. - Washington Post

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