Beloved Oklahoma statesman, Dr. Tom Coburn passed away this weekend. He was 72. Coburn has battled cancer multiple times in his life, since even before he was first elected to congress in 1994.
A family physician from Muskogee, Coburn was the first Republican elected from that Eastern Oklahoma district. Coburn served as a conservative with values reflective of both Democrats & Republicans. He refused to attend most partisan conventions and he openly defied national leaders who lacked fiscal restraint in his own caucus. He continued to practice medicine while in congress, & had to fight bureaucratic red tape in order to remain a family doctor. |
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