Rep. John P. Murtha, who just set a record as Pennsylvania's longest-serving House member, has died, his office announced Monday. He was 77. A Democrat, Murtha had represented southwestern Pennsylvania in Congress since 1974, and was chairman of the powerful House Appropriations subcommittee that writes the bill that decides how military programs are funded.
Murtha had been moved last week from National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. to Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., because of complications from gall bladder surgery.
On Saturday, Feb. 6, he surpassed his state's record for length of service in the House --13,150 days.
-- Paul Singer
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