Malcolm Wallop, 1933–2011

The rancher senator who pushed hard for missile defense

Voters got an early taste of Malcolm Wallop’s plainspoken conservatism in a campaign ad he made for his first, successful run for the Senate, in 1976. As the camera panned across the Wyoming plains, a voice-over explained new federal regulations mandating portable toilets for farm laborers. Then a cowboy rode into the frame with an outhouse strapped to his horse.

Wallop was born to a political family, said The New York Times. His British-born grandfather, a cattleman and Wyoming state legislator, returned to England in 1925 to sit in the House of Lords. Wallop, too, worked as a rancher before entering Wyoming politics, in 1969.

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