George Stanley McGovern – a staunch liberal who served South Dakota in the U.S. Senate and House for more than two decades and who ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic Party nominee for ...

George McGovern, the longtime anti-war congressman from South Dakota who notoriously suffered a devastating loss to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential campaign, died early Sunday morning at ...

Much is being made, and well it should be, of the late Senator George McGovern's opposition to the war in Vietnam. A decorated World War II bomber pilot who landed more than one plane that was ...

Sen. George McGovern, who lost the 1972 presidential bid to Richard Nixon yet inspired a new generation of voters, has died. He was 90. A family spokesman told the AP that McGovern died at 5:15 a ...

In his 87 years, George McGovern has served as a World War II pilot, history professor, Senator from South Dakota, and as the 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee. He's also an author, taking part ...

A phone call from George McGovern. It was late 2003 and I’d had no contact with him since the disastrous supersad election night of 1972 in Sioux Falls, S.D. I was covering the presidential ...

George McGovern flew dozens of missions in World War II as a fighter pilot, so Monday's tandem leap is hardly scary. McGovern says his only worry is remembering to pull the parachute cord.

In the aftermath of George McGovern’s death, there were many obits and articles about him. Most of the coverage called him an ardent feminist. Not so much, at least at the beginning. In 1971 ...

Former presidential nominee and Sen. George McGovern arrives during the funeral service for Sargent Shriver at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Potomac, Maryland in January 2011. Getty Images ...

IT’S BEEN 40 years since George McGovern lost his run for the presidency — lost so badly as to become a figure of fun to entertainers, a cautionary example to practicing politicians and ...

Oct. 21, 2012— -- A liberal icon from a Republican family, symbol of the American progressive movement, and former presidential candidate George McGovern passed today at the age of 90.