Alabama Representative Jack Venable, chair of the powerful House Rules Committee, died in November of leukemia.

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Alabama Representative Jack Venable, chair of the powerful House Rules Committee, died in November of leukemia. He was 66. First elected to the House in 1974, Venable was editor and publisher of the Tallahassee Tribune, former member of the Auburn University Board of Trustees, and widely considered by his colleagues to be a brilliant and...