Herb Kohl: Former owner of Milwaukee Bucks basketball team and U.S. Senator dead at 88
Herb Kohl, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin and former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team, has died. He was 88. His death on December 27 was announced by Herb Kohl Philanthropies, which did not give a cause but said he died after a brief illness. Kohl was a popular figure in Wisconsin, purchasing the Bucks to keep them from leaving town, and spending generously from his fortune on civic and educational causes throughout the state. He also used his money to fund his Senate races, allowing to him to portray himself as “nobody’s senator but yours.”...
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