Former GOP senator and Ohio governor George Voinovich dies

Monday, June 13, 2016

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Former Republican U.S. senator George Voinovich, a two-term Ohio governor who preached frugality in his personal and public life and occasionally bucked the GOP establishment, died Sunday. He was 79.

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