MILWAUKEE — Gaylord Nelson, the folksy Democratic senator from Wisconsin who helped start the modern environmental movement with the creation of Earth Day 35 years ago, died yesterday. He was 89.

A memorial service for Gaylord Nelson was held in the Wisconsin State Capitol Rotunda. The former Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator (1963-81) was known as a longtime environmentalist and as the ...

Gaylord A. Nelson, a former senator from Wisconsin who was one of the architects of America's modern environmental movement and the founder of Earth Day, died Sunday in Kensington, Md. He was 89 ...

MILWAUKEE – Gaylord Nelson (search), the former governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin who founded Earth Day (search) and helped spawn the modern environmental movement, died Sunday. He was 89 ...

Gaylord Nelson, a trend-setting environmentalist who as a Democratic U.S. senator from Wisconsin founded Earth Day in 1970, died Sunday. He was 89. Nelson, who was also a former Wisconsin governor ...

As we celebrate the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, it is fitting to take a moment to honor its founder, Sen. Gaylord Nelson. His death 10 years ago ended a lifetime of service to Wisconsin, the ...

Former U.S. Sen. and Wisconsin Gov. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), also known as the founder of Earth Day, addresses a National Press Club Newsmakers luncheon April 22, 2003 in Washington, D.C. (Photo ...

Gaylord Nelson, the late U.S. senator and governor of Wisconsin, is considered the founder of Earth Day. Nelson established himself as a conservation leader in Wisconsin, where he served as ...

Earth Day: How a senator's idea more than 50 years ago got people fighting for their planet. ... Democrat Gaylord Nelson, who had the idea that would become Earth Day.

After serving in the Army, the couple moved to Madison and married on Nov. 15, 1947. Gaylord was elected to the state Senate in 1948, as Wisconsin’s governor in 1958, and as a U.S. Senator in 1962.