temporary senator until the September 1975 special election, the result of which was not challenged; Cotton returned to Lebanon, New Hampshire. Cotton was the last senator to return to the senate via appointment for 43 years until Arizona's former Senator Jon Kyl was appointed by Governor Doug Ducey in 2018 following the death of Senator John McCain. Death and legacy Cotton died on February 24, 1989, in Lebanon, aged 88. He is interred at School Street Cemetery in Lebanon. The Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon is named for him, and a federal building in Manchester also bears his name. There is a New Hampshire historical marker (number 231) in Warren, unveiled in 2012, which says that his rise from humble beginnings "embodied an American way of life." Family life He married Ruth Isaacs on May 11, 1927. They had no children. Ruth died in 1978 and he married his housekeeper, Eleanor Coolidge Brown, in 1980. References External links U.S. Senate Historical Office, "Closest Election in Senate History", retrieved November 15, 2006. 1900 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American lawyers George Washington University Law School alumni New Hampshire lawyers Phillips Exeter Academy alumni American Congregationalists Wesleyan University alumni Republican Party members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Republican Party United States senators from New Hampshire Speakers of the New Hampshire House of Representatives People from Lebanon, New Hampshire Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire 20th-century American politicians People from Warren, New Hampshire