Former Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana, congressional overseer of US foreign affairs, has died

Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, a crewcut-wearing Indiana Democrat who was a leading foreign affairs voice during three decades in Congress, has died. His son Doug Hamilton said the former congressman died peacefully in his home in Bloomington, Indiana, at the age of 94. Hamilton led a congressional probe of the Reagan administration’s Iran-Contra affair and later helped oversee investigations of the Sept. 11 attacks. And he was at the forefront of congressional opposition to the 1991 Persian Gulf War waged by President George H.W. Bush. He decided against seeking reelection in 1998.