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Jon Kyl, longtime GOP legislator, dies at age 84
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
PHOENIX -- Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has died. He was 84.
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Former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl died at 84 from a neurological disorder; 20 months earlier on a podcast he urged people to participate so they could say, 'Yeah, I did something.'
Longtime Arizona Senator Jon Kyl has died. He was 84 years old. Memorial services for Kyl will be announced at a later date, his family said. Statement from Jon Kyl's family "Our husband, father, grandfather, son, and brother, Jon Kyl, has passed away at the age of 84 due to complications from a neu…
Former Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., is dead at the age of 84, his family announced Thursday. Kyl was first sworn in to the Senate in 1995, retiring in 2013. He briefly returned to the Senate in 2018 after former Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., died.
PHOENIX (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has died. He was 84.
Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has died after announcing his dementia diagnosis in December, and his family said Thursday he led a "full and meaningful public life."
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., made an appearance on Capitol Hill in October 2023 to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Kyl's family announced his death Thursday.
The longtime Republican lawmaker shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and, as a lobbyist, guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who served in Congress for more than 25 years, died at 84 years old from complications related to a neurological disease, his family announced Thursday.
Kyl died Wednesday from a neurological disorder, a friend of the family said. He had withdrawn from public life in 2025 after announcing he had been diagnosed with dementia.
The Arizona senator shepherded the confirmation of conservative supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh Jon Kyl, a Republican former US senator from Arizona who shepherded conservative supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh through his confirmation hearing, died on Thursday at 84, his family announced.
According to his son, former Sen. Kyl passed away Thursday at his home in Phoenix, with the family attributing his death to complications from a neurological disease.
Kyl spent almost three decades in Congress, serving in both chambers, and watched his party undergo a drastic transformation, with his career spanning Ronald Reagan's presidency to President Donald Trump's first term.
PHOENIX -- Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, a longtime Republican lawmaker from Arizona who shaped landmark water policies in the U.S. West and guided the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, has died. He was 84.
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