Tom Foley, House Speaker Ousted in 1994 Election, Dies at 84
This article is for subscribers only.
Tom Foley, the Democratic House speaker whose defeat after 30 years in Congress was the crowning blow of the Republican onslaught of 1994, has died. He was 84.
He died today at his home in Washington, D.C., his wife, Heather Foley, said in an interview. He had pneumonia and previously suffered strokes.