Former US Senator Charles Percy of Illinois, a leading moderate Republican voice during the Vietnam and Watergate years, died on Saturday, his daughter's office said. Percy, 91, who served in the Senate from 1966 to 1984, opposed the Vietnam war and sponsored a resolution calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the Watergate scandal during the administration of Richard Nixon, a Republican.
Percy died at a hospice in Washington, D.C., said a spokeswoman at WETA, a public broadcasting station in Washington where his daughter, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, is president and CEO. She is the wife of US Senator John D. Rockefeller of West Virginia, and disclosed in early 2009 that her father was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Before being elected to the Senate, Percy was a businessman who became chief executive of camera and projector maker Bell & Howell Corp. In the Senate, he staked out positions that were generally pro-business, but also liberal on social programs and sceptical of military spending.
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