WASHINGTON - APRIL 17: Former U.S. Sen. Mike Gravel answers a question during a press conference announcing his candidacy for U.S.
President in the Democratic Party April 17, 2006 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. During his announcement, SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) - Mike Gravel, a former U.S.
senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died.
He was 91.Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday, according to his daughter, Lynne Mosier.