Glenn, who in his post-NASA career served four terms as a U.S. senator from Ohio, was 95. The death was confirmed by Hank Wilson, communications director at the John Glenn College of Public ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WABC) -- John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate ...

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a longtime US senator, died Thursday, according to the Ohio State University. He was 95. It was announced Wednesday that Glenn had been ...

John Glenn, a freckle-faced son of Ohio who was ... doubts were replaced by a broad, new faith that the United States could indeed hold its own against the Soviet Union in the Cold War and might ...

John Glenn has been honored over the weekend with a three-day festival in Ohio marking what would have been the history-making astronaut and U.S. senator’s 100th birthday.Glenn, who died in 2016 ...

John Glenn, the all-American astronaut and senator ... Nine years later, in 1974, he was elected as a Democrat to the US Senate, where he served until 1999. Glenn's only brush with negative ...

"He didn't want any special treatment as a U.S. Senator," said crewmate Scott Parazynski. "He said, 'Don't call me Senator Glenn. I'm going to ignore you if you call me that. It's just John.

an icon of John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier as the first American to orbit the earth and a four-term U.S. senator, has died at age 95. Glenn died Thursday at the Ohio State University Wexner ...

as he was one of the five US senators ensnared in the Lincoln Savings & Loan and Keating Five scandal after pocketing a $200,000 contribution from Charles Keating. Glenn and Republican Sen. John ...

Update, 3:40 Thursday: John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, and later a four-term U.S. senator from Ohio, died Thursday at the Ohio State Cancer Center. He was 95. Earlier reporting ...