Posted 12/28/2023, 12:15:33 AM
Longtime Bucks owner and 4-term Wisconsin Senator Herbert Kohl dies at 88
- Owner of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA team for many years, spent a lot to keep the team in Milwaukee
- U.S. Senator from Wisconsin for 4 terms, focused on federal budget oversight
- Age 88 at time of death on December 27, 2022, after a brief illness
- From a family that built a retail empire starting with a corner grocery store in Milwaukee in 1927
- As Senator, chaired the Senate Aging Committee for a period