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3 lives remembered
Politics1946 – 2026 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Shirley Kitchen, the North Philadelphia social worker who became the second African American woman to serve in the Pennsylvania Senate and held her seat for two decades before hand-picking her own successor, died July 5, 2026, at the age of 79.
Politics1956 – 2026 · Shelbyville, Tennessee
Jim Tracy, the Tennessee Republican who spent more than a decade in the state Senate and lost a 2014 Republican primary for Congress by 38 votes, then declined to contest it, died July 3, 2026, at the age of 69.
Business1926 – 2026 · Washington, D.C.
Alan Greenspan was the Federal Reserve chairman known as “the Maestro,” who steered the U.S. economy for more than 18 years under four presidents, from the 1987 crash to the long boom of the 1990s, and stayed candid to the end about his mistakes.
