Former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, who ran as a Republican challenging President Richard Nixon in 1972, has died. McCloskey was a pro-environment, anti-war lawmaker who co-authored the federal Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day. He frequently butted heads with leaders of his own party.
FRESNO, Calif. — Pete McCloskey — a pro-environment, anti-war California Republican who co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day — has died. He was 96.
“It was foolish to run against him , but we didn’t have anybody else to do it, and I could not stand what a------ they’d become,” the frank-talking former Marine colonel said of the modern GOP in a 2008 interview with The Associated Press. Born in Loma Linda, California, on Sept. 29, 1927, as Paul Norton McCloskey Jr., he graduated from South Pasadena High School, where the second baseman made the school’s baseball hall of fame, although he self-deprecatingly called himself “perhaps the worst player on the baseball team.”
While in office, McCloskey also was known for befriending Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and criticized Israeli influence on American politics. The congressman was the first to demand Nixon’s impeachment, and the first to demand a repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution that allowed the Vietnam War., which protects species designated as endangered or threatened and conserves the ecosystems on which they depend.
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