George McGovern

American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from South Dakota from 1958-1962 and a Senator in 1963. In 1972, he also ran, as the democratic candidate, for the Presidency against Richard Nixon. His platform of peace through unilateral disarmament and removing troops from Europe and Vietnam was unsuccessful.

Married to Eleanor in 1943, their daughter Teresa was born 10 June 1949 in Mitchell, South Dakota, the middle child of five kids. A great worker, she helped out her father immensely with his campaign. Fun loving and quick witted, she seemed to also have been born with a vulnerability to both depression and alcoholism. She died on the freezing snowy night of 12 December 1994 in Madison, Wisconsin from "Hypothermia due to exposure while in a state of acute alcohol intoxication."

At age 67 McGovern was the sole owner of the Stratford Inn in southwestern Connecticut. "I feel like I'm more integrated into the life of the country," he said about his visits to the inn every other week from his home in Washington, DC. His wife Eleanor died on 25 January 2007 in Mitchell, South Dakota. According to the New York Times, she was born Eleanor Stegeberg on 25 November 1921, in Woonsocket, South Dakota. She had published her memoir, “Uphill: A Personal Story,” in 1973.

George McGovern died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on 21 October 2012, aged 90.