Frank Lautenberg, U.S. Senator From New Jersey, Dies at 89

Frank Lautenberg, the millionaire businessman turned U.S. senator who wrote laws that raised the legal drinking age to 21 and banned smoking on domestic airplane flights, has died. The five-term Democrat from New Jersey was 89.

He died today at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, according to a statement from his office. The cause was complications from viral pneumonia. In February he said he wouldn’t seek re-election in 2014.