Article: Sen. Zorinsky Of Nebraska Dies at 58

Edward Zorinsky, the maverick senior senator from Nebraska who unabashedly switched from Republican to Democrat to run for the Senate in 1976 and then threatened to switch back four years later when the Democrats lost power, died late Friday in Omaha of a heart attack at the age of 58.

Zorinsky, who reportedly collapsed after singing at a dinner at the Omaha Press Club at 10:45, was taken by ambulance to Methodist Hospital and died a short time later, according to state Sen. Bernice Labedz, a longtime friend.

He had been receiving treatment for a heart ailment for several years, and was hospitalized in 1985 after suffering chest pains.

Zorinsky, born Nov. 11, 1928, was the son of a ...

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