Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $1,117
1%  
Woo hoo!! 3rd Qtr 2025 FReepathon is now underway!!

Keyword: johnjmcfall

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • John McFall, U.S. congressman, dies at 88 in Virginia

    03/16/2006 2:19:48 PM PST · by Borges · 4 replies · 245+ views
    John J. McFall, a conservative California Democrat who served 11 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives before being implicated in a bribery scandal, has died. He was 88. McFall died March 7 at a hospital in Alexandria, Va., according to The United States Association of Former Members of Congress. He had Parkinson's disease and complications from a broken hip. McFall was elected to Congress in 1956 and served on the powerful House defense appropriations subcommittee, where he was an advocate for the Vietnam War policies of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. As chairman of the House appropriations...