Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) died on March 14, after having fostered a spirit of bipartisanship for nearly two decades in the Senate.
Simpson, 93, died early Friday morning after struggling to recover from a broken hip in December, his family and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, a museum group where he served as a board member for 56 years, said in a statement.
“He was an uncommonly generous man,” said Pete Simpson, his older brother, in the statement. “And I mean generous in an absolutely unconditional way. Giving of his time, giving of his energy—and he did it in politics and he did it in the family, forever.”...