According to The Buffalo News, Jack Kemp, 73, former Congressman, former Vice-Presidential candidate, and former Buffalo Bills quarterback, died Saturday. It was announced in January the Mr. Kemp had cancer, but no details were given. He served nine terms as a Congressman from western New York.
As head of the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs, he supported programs to fight homelessness and deal with urban blight. He supported enterprise zones to help develop areas of major cities that had decayed. Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, and Jeane Kirkpatrick co-founded Empower America, a public policy organization intended to promote economic growth, job creation and entrepreneurship, in 1993.
Jack Kemp was a man who believed in giving everyone a chance to prosper. He believed in the 'American Dream' of being free to achieve success without being overtaxed or overregulated by an out-of-control government.
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