Former U.S. senator and Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning, has died at the age of 85.
Bunning died on Friday, Bunning’s chief of staff during his time in the Senate, Jon Deuser, confirmed, according to the Associated Press.
No reason for death was given, though the Courier-Journal notes he suffered a stroke in October.
Bunning played in Major League Baseball from 1955 to 1971, during which he won 224 games and pitched a rare perfect game in 1964.
Later, after a failed bid for Kentucky governor in 1983, he served in the Kentucky state Senate before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, according to biography on Congress.gov. He served as a Republican congressman from 1987 to 1999 and then was elected to represent his state as U.S. senator. He served as senator from 1999 to 2011.
Bunning was the only person elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and serve in Congress, the Associated Press noted.
