Obit Lauch Faircloth
FILE - Texas Gov. George Bush, left, hugs North Carolina Sen. Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C., during a luncheon in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday June 18, 1998. Former U.S. Sen. Lauch Faircloth of North Carolina, a onetime conservative Democrat who switched late in his career to the Republicans and then got elected to Congress, died Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. He was 95.(AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)