Senator Craig Lyle Thomas – GOP Wyoming dies
Friend and colleague of Alan K. Simpson, Senator Craig Lyle Thomas of Wyoming died Monday evening in Bethesda, MD at 74http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/washington/05cnd-thomas.html. The cause was acute myeloid leukemia, his family said. Senator Thomas was born on a ranch near Cody, Wyo., a town near Yellowstone National Park. He came to prominence with a number of Wyoming politicians among them were former Senator Alan K. Simpson and Vice President Dick Cheney. Senator Thomas had known Mr. Simpson since their childhood together in Cody, and they formed a lasting bond. In Washington, their Senate careers overlapped when Mr. Thomas first came in 1995 and Mr. Simpson, who left office in 1997, was approaching retirement.
