David Boren, the former governor of Oklahoma and longtime senator, died Thursday at 83.

Boren was the last Democratic lawmaker to represent Oklahoma in the United States Senate, where he served from 1979 until 1994. Boren tied with J. Howard Edmondson as the state’s youngest governor before joining Congress after serving a single term.

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