Clint Roberts | Ex-lawmaker, actor, 82
Former U.S. Rep. Clint Roberts, 82, a South Dakota rancher who corralled cowboy roles on television and auditioned to be the "Marlboro Man," a nickname that stuck in Congress, died Monday at a hospital in Pierre from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Former U.S. Rep. Clint Roberts, 82, a South Dakota rancher who corralled cowboy roles on television and auditioned to be the "Marlboro Man," a nickname that stuck in Congress, died Monday at a hospital in Pierre from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Mr. Roberts, a Republican, once owned a 5,000-acre cattle and wheat ranch near Presho, in central South Dakota, and represented the state's western Second Congressional District from 1981 to 1983. He lost reelection when reapportionment left South Dakota with only one U.S. House seat in a fight of incumbents with then-Rep. Tom Daschle, a Democrat.
Mr. Roberts received the nickname "the Marlboro Man" in Washington, although his tryout photographs never made the grade. - AP