Paul Laxalt
United States Senator
Died when: 96 years 4 days (1152 months)Star Sign: Leo
Paul Dominique Laxalt (/'læks??lt/;August 2, 1922 – August 6, 2018) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 22nd governor of Nevada from 1967 to 1971 and a United States senator from Nevada from 1974 until 1987.
A member of the Republican Party, he was one of Ronald Reagan's closest friends in politics.After Reagan was elected president in 1980, many in the national press referred to Laxalt as "the first friend".
He was the older brother of writer Robert Laxalt and grandfather of Adam Laxalt, who served as the 33rd attorney general of Nevada from 2015 to 2019.
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