George McGovern dies at age 90

Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide election, has died at the age of 90.

George McGovern, seen here on Oct. 4, 1972, became most known for his outspoken opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. (Bob Daugherty/Associated Press)

Family spokesman Steve Hildebrand says McGovern died at 5:15 a.m. ET Sunday at a hospice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, surrounded by family and friends.

McGovern was a bomber pilot in the Second World War who became an early critic of the Vietnam War and a leader of the Democrats' liberal wing.

He was elected to his first of three Senate terms in 1962.

McGovern ran for president three times, also making a try for the nomination in 1968 and 1984.

Despite the 1972 Watergate break-in, Nixon won a second term in one of the biggest landslides in modern history.

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