Tom Foley represented an eastern Washington district for 30 years; Note: This story was updated to correctly reflect former Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield also served as U.S. ambassador to ...

Former House Speaker Tom Foley, who led the chamber from 1989 to 1995, has died, according to his family. He was 84. The Associated Press says Foley's wife, Heather, confirmed that the Washington ...

During three decades in Congress, Spokane Democrat Tom Foley ascended higher than anyone from Washington state, serving as speaker of the House and practicing a brand of bipartisan deal-making ...

Thomas S. Foley, a Democratic speaker of the House known for his conciliatory leadership style throughout his three decades in Congress from 1965 to 1995, is dead at the age of 84.

Tom Foley, ex-House speaker who served as a congressman for 30 years, has died at 84. When Republicans seized control of Congress in 1994 under President Clinton, he was among those voted out of ...

Robert H. Michel, a Republican, represented Illinois in the U.S. House from 1957 to 1995. He was Republican leader from 1981 to 1995. Try as he might, Speaker Tom Foley could not gavel the House ...

WASHINGTON — Tall and courtly, Tom Foley served 30 years in the House when partisan confrontation was less rancorous than today and Democrats had dominated for decades. He crowned his long ...

Tom Foley may well have been the last Speaker of the House presiding over a Congress where coalitions were built and bridges extended across party divides.

Minnesota voters of a certain age might recognize Tom Foley’s name. The southern Minnesota native served four terms as the Ramsey County attorney from 1978 to 1995. He ran for the U.S. Senate in ...

Former House Speaker Thomas S. Foley (D-Wash.), whose death was announced Friday, embodied everything that seems to have vanished from Washington. A consensus-builder, he was well mannered ...