Former Wyoming Republican senator Alan Simpson died on Friday at the age of 93 after decades of work in politics. Simpson died surrounded by friends and family after “struggling to recover from a broken hip in December,

Alan K. Simpson, the three-term Republican US senator from Wyoming who worked with Democrats to overhaul federal immigration law in 1986 and lead a deficit-reduction commission in 2010, has died. He was 93.

Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming has died at age 93. Simpson died early Friday. A political moderate by current standards, Simpson’s three terms as senator from 1979 to 1997 covered the Republican Party’s rejuvenation under President Ronald Reagan.