Bob Dole, the 97-year-old former Republican senator and 1996 presidential candidate, announced Thursday that he is battling lung cancer.
Dole represented Kansas in the US Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the GOP leader during the final 11 years of his tenure.
He served in the House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969.
Dole also was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election, and the vice presidential nominee in the 1976 election.
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I wish him a complete and speedy recovery.
A living Icon, of a bygone great generation.