'''Frank Forrester Church, III''' (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was four-term United States Senator from [[Idaho]], serving from 1957 to 1981.
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'''Frank Forrester Church, III''' (July 25, 1924 – April 7, 1984) was four-term United States Senator from [[Idaho]], serving from 1957 to 1981.
==Political career==
==Political career==
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===Foreign policy===
===Foreign policy===
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Church was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1979 to 1981. He was an opponent of the [[Vietnam War]], though he had been a supporter early on.<ref name=americanthinker/>
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Church was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1979 to 1981. He was an opponent of the [[Vietnam War]], though he had been an initial supporter of the war.<ref name=americanthinker/>
===Church Committee===
===Church Committee===
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==Death==
==Death==
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Church was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after leaving the Senate. He died from it in 1984 at age 59.
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Church was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer after leaving the Senate. He died in 1984 at the age of fifty-nine.