RIP: Mike Gravel, Former Alaska Senator And Anti-War Advocate, Dies At Age 91.

Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91.

Gravel, who represented Alaska as a Democrat in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, died Saturday, according to his daughter, Lynne Mosier. Gravel had been living in Seaside, California, and was in failing health, said Theodore W. Johnson, a former aide.

His surrealistic campaign videos to promote a quixotic run against Obama and Hillary in the 2008 presidential cycle defined “quirky:”