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'Bleeding-heart conservative' Kemp

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The Associated Press

Published: May 3, 2009

WASHINGTON - Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," died Saturday.

Kemp, 73 died after a lengthy illness, said his spokeswoman, Bona Park, and longtime friend and former campaign adviser, Edwin J. Feulner. Park said Kemp died at his home in Bethesda, Md., in the Washington suburbs.

Kemp had announced in January that he had cancer.

Kemp, a one-time quarterback for the Buffalo Bills, represented western New York for nine terms in Congress, leaving for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988.

Eight years later, after serving a term as former President George H.W. Bush's housing secretary, he made it onto the national ticket as Bob Dole's running mate.

That was his last campaign, but he stayed active in politics and found success on the lecture circuit.

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