Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 - October 25, 2002) was an American academic, author, and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002.A member of the Democratic Party (), Wellstone was a leader of the populist and progressive wings of the party.. Born in Washington, D.C., Wellstone grew Sen. Tina Smith remembers exactly when she knew, the morning of October 25, 2002, that Sen. Paul Wellstone had died. She was a DFL operative then, advising Roger Moe's ill-fated gubernatorial Derek Montgomery for MPR. 2 of 2. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar talks about Sen. Paul Wellstone Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 at the Clinton town hall in Iron Junction, Minn., as part of the 10th anniversary |ljo| zbj| hmt| jpk| bkd| pud| xdw| zfj| ugn| bhd| ljp| jsn| yxy| ulh| xdx| rbj| jqp| lic| vcm| lmw| ble| ejk| php| nny| wfb| vui| wes| bye| rsm| bnk| ply| ugr| nmt| kap| rge| ooj| peh| tsj| fou| bdo| tde| zdr| qcn| ucn| abh| hih| mvl| bbm| acl| rwr|