Thad Cochran announces retirement from Senate

over 7 years in Washington Times

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran announced Monday that he would resign April 1 due to ill health, creating two Senate contests in the deep-red Southern state this year. The powerful chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, elected the Senate in 1978 and now the tenth longest-serving senator in the nation's ...

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