Former Texas senator and Democratic vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bentsen has died. Madeleine Brand speaks with NPR political editor Ken Rudin about Bentsen's life and career. Lloyd Bentsen, the ...

Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr., a Texas patrician who made a sizable fortune in private business and an even bigger name in national government as a U.S. senator and Treasury secretary, has died, family members ...

HOUSTON – Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, the courtly Texan who famously put down vice presidential rival Dan Quayle in a 1988 debate by telling him “you’re no Jack Kennedy,” died ...

Lloyd Bentsen was the Democrats’ vice presidential candidate par excellence in 1988. Bentsen, a representative from Texas for six years through early 1955, left Congress to go into business and made ...

WASHINGTON - Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr., one of the most deft and influential politicians to emerge from Texas in the last half century, would have reveled in the bipartisan praise that marked his death ...

Lloyd Bentsen, U.S. senator from Texas, vice presidential nominee and Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, died at home in Houston on Tuesday. He was 85. After a long and distinguished ...

WASHINGTON - Lloyd Bentsen was a patrician, yet popular politician, tall and dignified, a U.S. senator from Texas for 22 years, a presidential candidate in the 1970s and the 1988 Democratic vice ...

HOUSTON Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, the courtly Texan who famously put down vice presidential rival Dan Quayle in a 1988 debate by telling him "you're no Jack Kennedy," died ...