Duke Cunningham

Former Representative Duke Cunningham, an ace fighter pilot elected to Congress from San Diego whose combat heroics in Vietnam were forever marred by a bribery scandal that sent him to federal prison, died in Little Rock, Ark.in august 2025 He was 83. A Representative from California; born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., December 8, 1941; B.A., University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 1964; M.A., University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., 1965; M.B.A., National University, San Diego, Calif., 1985; United States Navy, 1966-1987; teacher; lecturer; businessman; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Second and to the seven succeeding Congresses until his resignation on December 1, 2005 (January 3, 1991-December 1, 2005). Cunningham was married three times. He and his third wife, Sharon Stone Cunningham, whom he wed in 2021, lived in Hensley, Ark. She survives him; his other survivors include three children from an earlier marriage.