MILWAUKEE, May 11 (UPI) -- Lifelong advocate of the middle class, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and former Governor of Wisconsin Patrick Lucey has died. The 96-year-old passed away Saturday night in the Milwaukee Catholic Home, where he had been living for several years.
Lucey was first elected to governor in 1970. He served in Madison until halfway through a second term when he was selected by then-President Jimmy Carter to serve as ambassador to Mexico. Two years later, as John Anderson's vice presidential candidate on an independent ticket, Lucey tried to unseat Carter and prevent the Reagan Era in the 1980 presidential election.