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Former Senator Jon Kyl, holding his jacket over his shoulder, and Don McGahn walk up the steps outside the U.S. Capitol building.
A career on Capitol Hill Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, left, walks up the steps of the U.S. Capitol with White House counsel Don McGahn during Kyl's last year in the Senate, 2018.

Jon Kyl

United States senator
Also known as: Jon Llewellyn Kyl
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Jon Kyl (born April 25, 1942, Oakland, Nebraska, U.S.—died September 17, 2026, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.) was an American politician who served as a Republican congressman from Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–95) and in the U.S. Senate (1995–2013; 2018). He was Senate minority whip from 2007 to 2013. Kyl earned bachelor’s (1964) and law (1966) degrees from the University of Arizona, where he served as president of the Arizona Law Review. After being...

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