Congress

Zell Miller Dead at 86

‘ZIGZAG ZELL’

The Democratic ex-governor and senator famously crossed party lines to keynote the 2004 RNC.

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Zell Miller has died at the age of 86, his family confirmed Friday. The former two-term Georgia governor and U.S. senator reportedly suffered from multiple illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease. Miller was perhaps best-known as the keynote speaker at the 1992 Democratic National Convention for Bill Clinton, who then crossed party lines to keynote the 2004 Republican National Convention in favor of a George W. Bush re-election, condemning fellow then-Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) as a disastrous Democratic nominee.

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