The University of Wyoming is mourning the death of Alan K. Simpson, one of the most influential alumni in the university’s history and an unwavering friend and supporter of UW.

The public celebration of the life of former U.S. Sen. Alan K. Simpson will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 29, at the University of Wyoming’s Arena-Auditorium.

There are few people in Wyoming politics who have loomed larger than former U.S. Sen. Al Simpson. At 6’7” tall, Simpson was ...

U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson speaks at the Ramada hotel in Casper, while Rep. Dick Cheney chuckles, in this archival image. (Casper ...

Alan Simpson, a longtime Republican senator from Wyoming who championed bipartisan solutions and steadfastly advocated for a ...

After leaving the Army, Simpson got a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1958 and joined his father’s law practice, where he worked for the next 19 years. He was elected to the Wyoming ...

After leaving the Army, Simpson got a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1958 and joined his father’s law practice, where he worked for the next 19 years. He was elected to the Wyoming ...

After leaving the Army, Simpson got a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1958 and joined his father’s law practice, where he worked for the next 19 years. He was elected to the Wyoming ...

After leaving the Army, Simpson got a law degree from the University of Wyoming in 1958 and joined his father’s law practice, where he worked for the next 19 years. He was elected to the Wyoming ...

Simpson was born in Denver in 1931. After a childhood of reckless gun-shooting and vandalism in Cody that put him in danger ...