The exact death date was not given. That date was learned by researching online.

The first article is out of the Omaha World-Herald, reprinted from The Los Angeles Times. Dates of the two publications were not recorded.

EX-SENATOR PAUL SIMON DIES AT 75

(picture & caption:) “Former Sen. Paul Simon’s bow tie was his campaign trademark. The Illinois Democrat died Tuesday.”

WASHINGTON - - Former Sen. Paul Simon, a Democrat who ran for president in 1988 as a budget-balancing liberal, died Tuesday of complications after heart surgery in his home state of Illinois. He was 75.

Simon was an advocate of government solutions to social problems. He favored direct federal loans to college students; costly programs to create jobs; and national adult literacy programs; and he had no problem with keeping taxes high to pay for them.

“I want a government that cares,” he said. “I want a government that helps people.”

But on some issues he broke with conventional liberal dogma. He supported a constitutional amendment to require a balanced federal budget; a line-item veto so the president could strike individual elements from spending bills; and measures to limit violence on television.

Born Nov. 29, 1928 in Eugene, Ore., the son of Lutheran missionaries, Simon was editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper in southern Illinois before he entered politics. He made a name for himself crusading against political corruption.

A close friend, former Sen. Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, said in an interview after Simon’s death: “Not once in 12 years together in the Senate did I see him trim his sails or hedge his thinking to accommodate a political purpose. I never served with anybody else who voted his conscience every time.”

Simon had a long career as a populist Democrat, starting with his election to the Illinois Legislature in 1954. He was lieutenant governor of Illinois from 1969 to 1973, and he served five terms in the U.S. House before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1984. He served two terms in the Senate before retiring from Congress in 1997.

Simon’s 1987-88 presidential campaign helped make him nationally known. Sporting a professorial bow tie, he portrayed himself as an earnest, admittedly unglamorous, Midwesterner, an heir to the New Deal and the Great Society. He extolled both fiscal responsibility and social programs.

Simon was forced to withdraw from the Democratic presidential race in April 1988 after finishing second in Iowa and third in New Hampshire and winning only his home state. THIS REPORT INCLUDES MATERIAL FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES.

# 2 Publication of the following newspaper article was not recorded, but is considered to be locally published in Blair, Nebraska, Washington County, Nebraska.

SIMON LAUDED FOR LOYALTY TO DANA

Former Illinois Sen. Paul Simon attended Dana College in Blair, Neb., from 1946 to 1948. He was a longtime supporter of the college.

“No alumnus was more loyal than Paul Simon,” Dana President Myrvin Christopherson said Tuesday.

Simon left Dana in 1948 to become the youngest newspaper publisher in the United States. Christopherson said Simon returned almost every year at homecoming to sing in the reunion choir and attend the football game.

Simon served on Dana’s Board of Regents from 1978 to 1981 and from 1985 to 1996. He was to have rejoined the board Jan. 1.

Christopherson said Simon, named Distinguished Alumnus in 1979, also gave generously to the college.

After his run for the U.S. presidency in 1988, Simon donated leftover campaign money to establish a fund to allow Dana students to travel overseas.

Simon also was the primary planner and fund-raiser for an international conference held at Dana on the rescue of Danish Jews during World War II.