John P. Murtha was a long-serving American politician and Marine Corps veteran from Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010, and was the first Vietnam War veteran elected to Congress.
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Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), the first veteran of the Vietnam war to be elected to the House and one of the most powerful lawmakers in Congress, died Monday afternoon at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, VA, after complications from gallbladder surgery.
www.foxnews.comJohn Patrick Murtha Jr. (/ˈmɜːrθə/ *MUR-thə*; June 17, 1932 – February 8, 2010) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Murtha, a Democrat, represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death in 2010. He is the longest-serving member of the United States House of Representatives ever elected from Pennsylvania. … *John P. Murtha* (LPD-26). The *Navy Times* said the official announcement "added...
wikipedia.nucleos.comRep. Murtha, the first Vietnam veteran to serve in Congress, called in 2005 for an immediate pullout of U.S. forces from Iraq. He also delivered billions in federal dollars to his home state.
www.latimes.comPowerful Democrat Representative from Pennsylvania Served 36 Years in the House, Died Today at the Age of 77
www.cbsnews.comU.S. Democratic Representative John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and was later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
www.cbc.caRep. John Murtha (D-PA) died Monday of complications from surgery at the age of 77. Murtha was a retired Marine Corps Officer, a Vietnam veteran, one of the most outspoken critics of the U.S. war in Iraq and a strong defender of Congressional deal-making. NPR’s Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving remembers Murtha and his legacy.
www.npr.orgMurtha has helped secure millions in earmarks for the clients of the PMA Group, which also happen to be some of his top career campaign contributors. PMA's offices were raided by the FBI in November 2008, as part of an investigation into PMA's "suspicious campaign donations."
www.sourcewatch.orgU.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77.
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