In photos: George McGovern, war hero, senator and presidential hopeful
The proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972, died before dawn Sunday. He was 90.
This 1944 file photo provided by the McGovern family shows George McGovern when he received the Distinguished Flying Cross.The Associated Press
George McGovern sits in the cockpit of a training plane in this undated photo.The Associated Press
George McGovern, joins senator John F. Kennedy on the campaign trail in Sioux Falls, S.D. in June 1960.The Associated Press
George McGovern sits at his desk in Washington, D.C. in February 1961.The Associated Press
George McGovern, left, and Robert Dole, are interviewed on ABC's Issues and Answers in Washington in August of 1970.The Associated Press
Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern waves on his arrival to New York in August of 1968.John Lindsay/The Associated Press
Rosalie Bryant holds her two year old son, Gregory Michael, as she talks to senators George McGovern, right and Jacob Javits, in Immokalee, Fla. in March of 1969.Jim Bourdier/The Associated Press
George McGovern, joins in a three way handshake with Salvador Luria, left, a Nobel Laureate in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and physicist Harry Palevsky of the Brookhaven National Laboratory of Long Island, N.Y., after they announced their support for his presidential campaign at a news conference in Boston in January of 1972.Bill Chaplis/The Associated Press
George McGovern, Democratic presidential candidate, has breakfast with his daughter Teresa, center, and his wife Eleanor at his hotel Biltmore headquarters in New York following primary victory in New York State in June of 1972 .Ray Stubblebine/The Associated Press
George McGovern holds up the hand of his wife, Eleanor, and announced to the crowd gathered in downtown Syracuse that is was their 29th wedding anniversary, Oct. 31, 1972.Bob Schutz/The Associated Press
George McGovern with his wife, Eleanor, and senator Thomas F. Eagleton with his wife, Barbara Ann, stand in July of 1972 before the Democratic National Convention delegates who chose them to try to capture the White House from president Richard Nixon in Miami.The Associated Press
George McGovern makes his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach in July of 1972. At left is his running mate, Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri, and at right, convention chairman Lawrence F. O’Brien.The Associated Press
George McGovern looks out an airplane window on a flight to Pierre, S.D., to begin a four-day campaign swing in March of 1974.The Associated Press
George McGovern goes for a jeep ride with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, behind the wheel, during the senator’s May, 1975 visit to Cuba. Mr. McGovern was opposed to the embargo of the island.Charles Tasnadi/The Associated Press
George McGovern listens to constituents as he arrives at Pierre, S.D. airport in May of 1975.Jim Mone/The Associated Press
Presidential hopefuls, John Glenn, left, George McGovern, centre, and Walter Mondale, right, pause for photographers after debating the nuclear arms issue at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. in October of 1983.Elise Amendola/The Associated Press
Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, and George McGovern both gesture during the Democratic presidential debate in Manchester, N.H. in February of 1984.The Associated Press
Hillary Clinton with George McGovern in October of 2007.Charlie Neibergall/The Associated Press
George McGovern poses with a life-sized photo of former U.S. President Harry Truman at the Harry S. Truman Little White House Museum in Key West, Florida, in May of 2009.Reuters
George McGovern arrives for the funeral mass for Sargent Shriver at Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Potomac, Virgina in January of 2011.Reuters