Pete McCloskey — a pro-environment, anti-war California Republican who co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and co-founded Earth Day — has died. He was 96. A fourth-generation Republican "in the mold ...

Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, a decorated Korean War combat Marine who beat celebrity Shirley Temple to win a seat in Congress representing the Peninsula and South Bay in the late 1960s, then became the ...

Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, a Republican congressman from California who called for President Richard Nixon’s resignation and launched a longshot bid for president in 1972 to unseat him, died Wednesday.

Former Rep. Pete McCloskey, a California Republican, is shown at his Redwood City law office in 2006. He died Wednesday at 96. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press) When Pete McCloskey challenged President ...

Paul Norton ‘Pete’ McCloskey Jr. (September 29, 1927 – May 8, 2024), in an undated photo, was an American politician who represented San Mateo County, Calif., as a Republican in the U.S. House of ...

When Pete McCloskey challenged President Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972, his defeat was nothing short of stunning. Only one of the 1,348 delegates at the Miami convention voted for ...