Lowell P. Weicker, one of the most prominent liberal voices in the Republican Party and the last surviving member of the Senate Watergate Committee, died Wednesday at age 92, according to a statement issued by his family. The statement did not specify a cause of death.
Frank and physically imposing, he was a senator from Connecticut from 1971 until his defeat by then-Democrat Joseph I. Lieberman in 1988, at which point he became a law professor in Washington.
Two years later, he was elected governor of Connecticut as a third-party candidate. As a senator, he briefly sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980, the year Ronald Reagan was elected.
