Daniel E. Button, 91, a former U.S. congressman from New York, newspaper editor and author, died Saturday.
As executive editor of the Albany Times Union, Button crusaded against the Democratic machine.
In 1966, Button was elected as a Republican in the heavily Democratic 29th Congressional District. He served two terms, then unsuccessfully ran for reelection as an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War in 1970.
He was president of the National Arthritis Foundation in the early 1970s and later editor of Science Digest magazine. He wrote a book about New York Mayor John Lindsay in 1965.
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