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Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder, died Sunday. He was 76. Isakson's son John Isakson told The Associated Press that his father died in his sleep before dawn at his home in Atlanta.…
As chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Johnny Isakson worked to expand programs offering more private health-care choices for veterans.
Isakson had been battling Parkinson’s Disease for more than a half decade, revealing his diagnosis in 2015.
ATLANTA (AP) — Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state Legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder, died Sunday. He was 76.
The former Georgia lawmaker rose from the ranks of the state Legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes force for compromise.