NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Fred Thompson, a folksy former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who appeared in feature films and television including a role on "Law & Order," died Sunday, his family said.

Fred Thompson has died at age 73. He is known to the political world as a Watergate Committee counsel, a U.S. senator for eight years, a Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 cycle; and he is ...

March 8 -- A little more than a month after the sudden death of his daughter, Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson announced today that he will retire from political office at the end of this year, when ...

Sam Waterston and Fred Thompson in the L&O glory days. Was it just a year ago — it feels like decades — that Fred Thompson finally officially entered the Republican race for president on September 5, ...

In what it’s billing as “Defining Moments: A series of articles on events that shaped the presidential candidates”, The Los Angeles Times took a look at former senator Fred Thompson’s career as a ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Fred Thompson - veteran actor, former Republican senator - launched his bid for the presidency Hollywood style. "I'm running for president of the United States," Thompson told Jay ...

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley is an unlikely place for the first debate for the 2008 Republican presidential candidates, because it was Ronald Reagan who gave the GOP an 11th ...

A campaign that isn’t Fred Thompson’s wants the world to notice comments Michael Reagan said about Senator Thompson in an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto: “When you went to a Ronald Reagan speech ...