John Heinz

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Person.png John Heinz   SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businessman, politician)
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BornOctober 23, 1938
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedApril 4, 1991 (Age 52)
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Cause of death
plane crash
NationalityUS
Alma materPhillips Exeter Academy, Yale University, Harvard University
ParentsJack Heinz
SpouseTeresa Simões-Ferreira
PartyRepublican
RelativesDrue English
US Senator who chaired review board that probed the Iran-Contra affair. Both he and Senator John Tower, who was investigating a variety of different CIA criminal activities and dirty dealings, died in two different plane accidents on the same day.

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In office
January 3, 1977 - April 4, 1991
Preceded byHugh Scott
Died in suspicious plane accident

Henry John Heinz III was an American businessman and politician who was United States senator from Pennsylvania from 1977 until his death in a 1991 plane crash. Heinz was previously the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district from 1971 to 1977.[1]

He was instrumental in getting the Clean Air Act passed by the US Senate in 1990.

Death

John Heinz chaired a three-man presidential review board that probed the Iran-Contra affair and had in his possession all the damning documents from that affair, while John Tower led the Tower Commission that investigated a variety of different CIA criminal activities and dirty dealings. Coincidentally, both John Heinz and John Tower died in plane wrecks on successive days in 1991 – Tower in Georgia, and Heinz in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

John Simkin describes the circumstances of Heinz' death as follows: "On 4th April, 1991, Heinz flew to Philadelphia to conduct the first in a series of investigative hearings to examine the telemarketing of medical equipment to Medicare beneficiaries. His Piper Aerostar PA60, carrying him and four other adults developed landing-gear trouble, a helicopter was dispatched to examine the problem. The helicopter's blades accidentally hit the bottom of the plane. Both aircraft crashed to the ground killing everyone on board."[2]

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