Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, who in the span of less than a decade went from being one of the nation’s most powerful politicians to serving a federal prison sentence, died over the weekend at age 84, the Kendall County, Ill., coroner’s office said Monday. He had been under hospice care.
Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker in history, suffered a stroke in 2015 that hospitalized him for an extended period.
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