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Advocate of bipartisanship, opponent of Iraq war, patient lawmaker

Born July 18, 1941, William David Delahunt was a proud son of Quincy, a city bearing the name of presidents. But Bill Delahunt’s background was far from political aristocracy. His mother worked as a secretary, his father a salesman for U.S. Rubber Company, the family a combination of Canadian and Irish immigrants — fertile turf […]