What is Paul Wellstone?
{{Infobox officeholder |birthname=Paul David Wellstone |image name=Paul Wellstone, official Senate photo portrait.jpg |imagesize=220px |jr/sr=United States Senator |state=[[Minnesota]] |party=[[Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party|Democratic-Farmer-Labor]] |alma_mater=[[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] |term=January 3, 1991 – October 25, 2002 |preceded=[[Rudy Boschwitz]] |succeeded=[[Dean Barkley]] |birth_date={{birth date|1944|7|21}} |birth_place=[[Washington, D.C.]] |death_date={{death date and age|2002|10|25|1944|7|21}} |death_place=[[Eveleth, Minnesota]] |spouse=[[Sheila Wellstone]] (1944–2002) |children=David Wellstone<br>Mark Wellstone<br>Marcia Wellstone (1969–2002) |footnotes= }} '''Paul David Wellstone''' (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an American [[academic]] and [[politician]] who represented [[Minnesota]] in the [[United States Senate]] from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash in [[Eveleth, Minnesota]] in 2002. A member of the [[Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party|Democratic Farmer-Labor Party]], Wellstone was a leader of the progressive wing of the national [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. ==Other websites== {{commons category-inline|Paul Wellstone}} {{CongBio|W000288}} * {{C-SPAN|Paul Wellstone}} * [http://www.wellstone.org/ Wellstone Action political training centers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302155136/http://www.wellstone.org/ |date=2017-03-02 }} * {{worldcat id|id=lccn-n80-136425}} {{CongLinks | congbio= W000288 | c-span=paulwellstone }} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wellstone, Paul}} [[Category:1944 births]] [[Category:2002 deaths]] [[Category:Aviation deaths in the United States]] [[Category:Academics from Washington, D.C.]] [[Category:American progressives]] [[Category:United States senators from Minnesota]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Politicians from Washington, D.C.]] [[Category:Educators from Minnesota]]