Coalition on HealthCare. He has also served on national health commissions and boards, including the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission and Board of the National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA), and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. Durenberger endorsed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president in 2020. He was a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One. Personal life Durenberger's first wife, Judith, died of cancer in 1970. He and his second wife, Penny, separated in 1985. Durenberger married his third wife, Susan, in 1995. He had four sons from his first marriage and two stepchildren. Durenberger died of heart failure at home in St. Paul on January 31, 2023, at age 88. Writings A collection of Durenberger's senatorial files is held by the Minnesota Historical Society. It documents his three terms in the United States Senate and is strongest in its documentation of the third (1989–95). The papers are perhaps most significant for the information they contain about his interest in, and legislative activities regarding, health policy and health care reform issues. Durenberger's books include When Republicans were Progressive, which traces the history of Minnesota's Republican party from the era of Stassen, a moderate Republican governor who took office in 1939, to the ascent of a more conservative strain within the party in the late 1980s (Durenberger lamented the polarization of more recent politics); Neither Madmen nor Messiahs: A Policy of National Security for America (1984), on defense policy; and Prescription for Change (1986), on health care reform. See also List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes List of federal political scandals in the United States List of United States senators expelled or censured References External links |- |- 1934 births 2023 deaths 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American politicians American people convicted of misusing public funds American people of German descent American politicians of Polish descent Censured or reprimanded United States senators College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University alumni Deaths from congestive heart failure Disbarred American lawyers Lawyers from Minneapolis Members of Congress who became lobbyists Military personnel from Minnesota Minnesota Independents Minnesota politicians convicted of crimes Minnesota Republicans Politicians from St. Cloud, Minnesota Republican Party United States senators from Minnesota United States Army officers University of Minnesota Law School alumni