Former Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Oregon), who resigned from the Senate in 1995 after the Senate Ethics Committee voted to expel him for sexual and official misconduct, has died, according to multiple reports.
The Oregonian reported Saturday that Packwood, 93, died that day. A family friend said that he died in California, according to the outlet.
The New York Times reported that his wife said he died in a Southern California residential care facility in a statement.
Packwood began his stint in Congress in 1969 and was at one point the chair of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, later to become the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
According to a Los Angeles Times story about Packwood’s resignation, the Ethics Committee released over 10,000 pages of documents that displayed a “pattern of abuse of his position of power and authority as United States Senator.” The documents featured “many explicit” allegations and said 19 women had accused the former Oregon senator of misconduct, according to the LA Times.
In 2014, then-Vice President Biden spoke favorably about Packwood in spite of his allegations while going after Republicans for leaving women and the middle class behind.
“It’s Republicans who were involved, guys like [Sen.] Mac Mathias [R-Md.] and Packwood and so many others,” Biden said at the time.
