George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history ...

Democrat George S. McGovern, a war hero who opposed the Vietnam War, was crushed by President Richard Nixon's Watergate-tainted campaign. A die-hard idealist, McGovern inspired scores of budding ...

George Stanley McGovern was born on July 19, 1922, in the small farm town of Avon, S.D, the son of a Methodist pastor. He was raised in Mitchell, shy and quiet until he was recruited for the high ...

George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a thundering landslide ...

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 ...

George McGovern seemed like a long shot when he announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination for president in 1971. ... George McGovern lost to Richard Nixon.

Former Sen. George McGovern, the Democrat who challenged Richard Nixon in 1972 and lost in one of the country’s biggest electoral landslides, 520 electoral votes to 17, died early Sunday morning ...

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Former US senator George McGovern, the Democrat who lost to president Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90.

George McGovern, a longtime liberal icon whose run for the presidency against Richard Nixon in 1972 ended in a disastrous landslide, died early Sunday at a hospice in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was 90.