Deaths in 2021

Here is a list of deaths of federal elected officials in the United States in 2021.

April

6: Alcee Hastings, former judge and former Democratic representative from Florida, 84.

6: Bobby Schilling, former Republican representative from Illinois, Walter Mondale, Democratic nominee for May

6: David Gambrell, former Democratic United States Senator from Georgia, Pete DuPont, former Republican representative from Delaware, John Warner, former Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia, 94.

June

27: Mike Gravel, former Democratic U.S. Senator from Alaska and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate, 91.

30: Donald Rumsfeld, former two-time Secretary of Defense and Republican representative from Illinois, 88.

July

15: Jerry Lewis, former Republican representative from California, 86.

27: Mike Enzi, former Republican United States Senator from Wyoming, 77.

27: Carl Levin, former Democratic United States Senator from Michigan, 87.

September

6: Adlai Stevenson III, former Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, 90.

November

2: Dennis Moore, former Democratic representative from 75.

9: Max Cleland, former Democratic United States Senator from Georgia, 79.

December

5: Bob Dole, former Republican United States Senator from Kansas. Republican nominee for Vice President in the 1976 presidential election. Republican nominee for president in the 1996 presidential election, 98.

28: Harry Reid, former Senate Majority Leader and Democratic United States Senator from Nevada, 82.

These are the deaths in 2021 of elected federal officeholders.