Max Cleland, who served as the former administrator of the Department of Veterans Affairs and a senator from Georgia, died at the age of 79.
Cleland succumbed to congestive heart failure at his home in Atlanta, according to multiple outlets.
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Cleland served as the administrator of the Department of Veterans Affairs from 1977 to 1981 before being elected to the Senate, a position he held from 1997 until an electoral defeat in 2003. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War who lost both of his legs and one of his arms after an accident in which a grenade exploded.
The former Veterans Affairs administrator was the last Democrat to serve as a U.S. senator from Georgia for 18 years until the 2021 special elections, which saw Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock assume office.
