HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who briefly was the Democratic vice presidential nominee in 1972, was in critical condition at a St. Louis hospital Saturday, the state Democratic ...

ST. LOUIS -- A younger Sen. Thomas Eagleton may have neglected to disclose the depression and electroshock therapy that ultimately cost him a brief run as George McGovern's vice presidential running ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as a vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday, according to the office ...

ST. LOUIS -- Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as George McGovern's vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday. Eagleton, ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Thomas F. Eagleton, a former United States senator, a driving ...

ST. LOUIS -- George McGovern was still fighting for the presidential nomination, even as the 1972 Democratic National Convention was under way. Picking a running mate was not high among his priorities ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Joel Goldstein (left), of St. Louis University, and the late Thomas Eagleton in a 2008 file photo. The St. Louis University Law ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle It was July 1972, and ...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Former U.S. Sen. Thomas Eagleton, who resigned as a vice presidential nominee in 1972 after it was revealed he had been hospitalized for depression, died Sunday. He was 77. The cause ...