Remembering the late U.S. Senator, UNC alum Paul Wellstone

Posted Nov 16, 2015
It’s been 25 years since Wellstone won an historic against-all-odds victory for the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota in 1990....At the University of North Carolina, he won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship in his 126-pound weight class. Wellstone earned his undergraduate degree in 1965 and stayed at the University of North Carolina to earn a Ph.D. in political science in 1969 with a dissertation about black militants. (Salon.com)

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