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Longtime Arizona GOP Rep. Jim Kolbe dies at 80

FILE - Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz, speaks during a press conference at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon on June 1, 2005. Kolbe, a Republican congressman who represented a heavily Democratic region of Arizona for more than two decades and was a proponent of gay rights, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. He was 80. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) FILE - Rep. Jim Kolbe, R -Ariz., center right, speaks to members of the Mexican delegation during the Mexico-U.S. Interparliamentary Meeting in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, on March 3, 2006. At left is Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and at right is Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas. Kolbe, a Republican congressman who represented a heavily Democratic region of Arizona for more than two decades and was a proponent of gay rights, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. He was 80. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) FILE - Former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe sits for a photo in the living room of his house in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 15, 2007. Kolbe, a Republican congressman who represented a heavily Democratic region of Arizona for more than two decades and was a proponent of gay rights, died Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. He was 80. (AP Photo/John Miller, File)
Longtime Arizona GOP Rep. Jim Kolbe dies at 80