Word is dropping that former Illinois Rep. Henry Hyde has passed away today at the age of 83. He served in Congress from 1975 to 2007. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this month.

Hyde became infamous as a hypocrite during the impeachment proceedings toward President Bill Clinton after Salon.com published a story, “This Hypocrite Broke Up My Family,” which indicated that from 1965 to 1969, Hyde had an extramarital sexual affair with Cherie Snodgrass. Hyde had readily pursued the impeachment of Clinton based on his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

At that time, Snodgrass was married to another man with whom she had had three children. “The Snodgrasses divorced in 1967, according to Wikipedia. “The affair ended when Snodgrass’ husband confronted Mrs. Hyde.”

Although Hyde was forty-one years old and married at the time of the affair, he dismissed it as one of his “youthful indiscretions.”