Hour-and-a-half funeral service for George McGovern held in Sioux Falls Attended by friends, family, included personal stories and reflections of his life McGovern died at 90 on Oct . 21 SIOUX ...

George Stanley McGovern died Sunday at the age of 90, his family said.

Former South Dakota Sen. George McGovern was born 100 years ago this summer. Here's a look at his legacy.

The economy didn't doom George McGovern in 1972. The economy and the winding down of the war in Vietnam did.

A liberal icon from a Republican family, former senator George McGovern's legacy is best known for his landslide defeat to President Richard Nixon in the 1972 election. For some politicians ...

If anyone was entitled to regrets, it was George McGovern, who died at 90 over the weekend. His 1972 campaign was such a disaster that he once joked that he "wanted to run for the presidency in ...

IT’S BEEN 40 years since George McGovern lost his run for the presidency — lost so badly as to become a figure of fun to entertainers, a cautionary example to practicing politicians and, in ...

How George McGovern and a campaign 50 years ago helped poison today’s politics Campaigning for president, Sen. George McGovern speaks to University of Illinois students in March 1972.

George McGovern was an unusual person. Not because he ran for president. Not because of the size of his loss in 1972. Not because of the policies he proposed. He was an extraordinary person ...

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 ...

A phone call from George McGovern. It was late 2003 and I’d had no contact with him since the disastrous supersad election night of 1972 in Sioux Falls, S.D. I was covering the presidential ...