The lawyer Fred Thompson died at the age of 73. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
Successful Law & Order actor who went on to serve as a U.S. Senator from 1994 to 2003.
He divorced his first wife, Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey, in 1985. He married Jeri Kehn seventeen years later.
Quotes
"I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.
"And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.
"In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about – the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
"So if you look back over the long history of China, they’ve never tried to take over the world, but they’ve been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood… in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
"We have some real political differences among us, but we all share the same goals: clean air and water, injury free workplaces, safe transportation systems, to name a few of the good things that can come from regulation.