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Maurice D. Hinchey, Congressman and Environmental Advocate, Dies at 79
Source: New York Times
Maurice D. Hinchey, Congressman and Environmental Advocate, Dies at 79
By MATT STEVENS NOV. 23, 2017
Maurice D. Hinchey, a former United States representative from New York who built a reputation as a champion of the environment and blue-collar workers over a political career that spanned nearly four decades, died Wednesday at his home in Saugerties. He was 79.
The cause was frontotemporal degeneration, a rare, terminal neurological disorder, his family said.
Mr. Hinchey, a Democrat who retired from Congress in 2013 after 10 terms, began his political career as a state assemblyman in Albany in 1975. Within four years, he became the chairman of its Environmental Conservation Committee and served there until 1992, when he was elected to Congress.
During his time on the State Assembly’s conservation committee, he led an investigation into Love Canal, an unfinished waterway in upstate New York that became one of the nation’s first major toxic dumpsites. The saga that emerged would force hundreds of families to evacuate and elevate concerns over toxic waste to the national spotlight.
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By MATT STEVENS NOV. 23, 2017
Maurice D. Hinchey, a former United States representative from New York who built a reputation as a champion of the environment and blue-collar workers over a political career that spanned nearly four decades, died Wednesday at his home in Saugerties. He was 79.
The cause was frontotemporal degeneration, a rare, terminal neurological disorder, his family said.
Mr. Hinchey, a Democrat who retired from Congress in 2013 after 10 terms, began his political career as a state assemblyman in Albany in 1975. Within four years, he became the chairman of its Environmental Conservation Committee and served there until 1992, when he was elected to Congress.
During his time on the State Assembly’s conservation committee, he led an investigation into Love Canal, an unfinished waterway in upstate New York that became one of the nation’s first major toxic dumpsites. The saga that emerged would force hundreds of families to evacuate and elevate concerns over toxic waste to the national spotlight.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/obituaries/maurice-hinchey-dies.html