Herb Kohl, Former U.S. Senator and Milwaukee Bucks Owner, Dies at 88
Herb Kohl, a longtime Democratic senator from Wisconsin and former owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, has died, his philanthropic organization announced Wednesday. He was 88.
The organization, Herb Kohl Philanthropies, did not list a cause of death but reported that he passed after suffering from a brief illness.
A popular figure across his native Wisconsin, he built a fortune running Kohl’s department store alongside his brother and father, who founded the company. He went on to become president and CEO before staking a then-staggering sum of nearly $20 million on the Bucks in 1985 to keep them from leaving town, a record at the time for an NBA franchise.