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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Times has a new story up today about former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson on the campaign trail, and it ain’t pretty: Twenty-four minutes after he began speaking in a small restaurant ...