{"id":108527,"date":"2021-12-05T23:10:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108527"},"modified":"2021-12-05T23:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:10:52","slug":"former-senator-bob-dole-dead-at-98-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108527","title":{"rendered":"Former Senator Bob Dole Dead at 98 &#8211; World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108527\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=108527\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-108528 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bob-dole-1638723531-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bob-dole-1638723531-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bob-dole-1638723531-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/bob-dole-1638723531.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Geoffrey Huchel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senator and presidential nominee Bob Dole passed away December 5, 2021. It was not revealed where he died. As for a cause, it was announced last winter that he had Stage IV lung cancer and he was beginning treatment. Bob Dole was 98.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Joseph Dole was born on July 22, 1923, in Russell, Kansas. He was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969-1996. Prior to his years in the Senate, Dole served in the United States House of Representatives from 1961-1969, was the Senate Majority Leader from 1985-1987 and 1995-1996, the Senate Minority Leader from 1987-1995 and was the Chair of the Republican National Committee from 1971-1973. Dole was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election, and the nominee for vice president in the 1976 election.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dole served as Colonel in the United States Army from 1942-1948 during World War II, and received the Purple Heart Award.<\/p>\n<p>Ringside Report sends our condolences to Bob Dole\u2019s family during their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Geoffrey Huchel Senator and presidential nominee Bob Dole passed away December 5, 2021. It was not revealed where he died. As for a cause, it was announced last winter that he had Stage IV lung cancer and he was beginning treatment. Bob Dole was 98. Robert Joseph Dole was born on July 22, 1923, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22247,18030],"tags":[27887],"class_list":["post-108527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-columns","category-world-news","tag-former-senator-bob-dole-dead-at-98-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108527"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}