[Volokh] Orin Kerr: Tom Lantos Dies at 80:

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Posted by Orin Kerr:
Tom Lantos Dies at 80:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_02_10-2008_02_16.shtml#1202841473


   Tom Lantos, the California Congressman and a Holocaust survivor, has
   passed away at the age of 80. The [1]San Francisco Chronicle has an
   obituary:

       In the nearly 60 years Tom Lantos spent in the United States, he
     never lost his Hungarian accent, his love for animals or his
     stubborn belief that political leaders have a duty to speak out
     against tyranny or oppression, wherever it occurs.
       Lantos, the Democratic congressman from San Mateo for 27 years,
     died Monday morning at Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital from
     cancer of the esophagus. He was 80. He championed the causes of
     those who often had no other voice, whether they were in Tibet,
     Darfur, China or anywhere else in the world.
       As a teenage boy in Hungary, Lantos escaped from Nazi labor camps
     and the genocide of the Holocaust, which took the lives of most of
     his family. It was a time he never forgot and that shaped the rest
     of his life.

References

   1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/12/MNDGV0EFH.DTL