(George Tames | The New York Times) Then-Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) at the Republican National Convention in Aug., 1984. Dole, the plain-spoken son of the prairie who overcame Dust Bowl deprivation in Kansas and grievous battle wounds in Italy to become the Senate majority leader and the last of the World War II generation to win his party's nomination for president, died on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. He was 98.