Bob Edgar, 69, Common Cause president and CEO,...
Bob Edgar, 69, Common Cause president and CEO, died of a heart attack Tuesday at his Burke, Va., home. A U.S. Democratic representative from Pennsylvania for six terms starting in 1974, he was among the Democratic so-called Watergate babies elected…
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to Congress after the Watergate scandal. After losing a Senate contest to then-Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., in 1986, Edgar joined Common Cause’s board as part of efforts aimed at campaign finance reform, and was named president and CEO in 2007. Survivors include his wife and three sons.