SAM ROBERTS

The Texas Democrat broke barriers in nursing and the Texas legislature, and then served 15 terms in Congress.

After decamping from New York to New Mexico, he wrote what was, for a time, among the most widely read novels about Latinos.

He was the unsung investigator whose dogged undercover probe exposed the “Dirty 30” scandal in a Harlem precinct.

A state legislator from Queens and a city and state comptroller, he was forced to resign in a scandal and later imprisoned in a pay-to-play...

His tiny California newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its exposé of Synanon, a renowned drug rehabilitation program that had turned into a violent operation.

As the State Assembly’s respected majority leader, he attempted to oust his boss, Sheldon Silver, the body’s imperious speaker. That move ended his career.

A conservative mastermind of the race-based “Southern strategy,” he later, as a writer, had second thoughts after assessing income inequality under three Republican presidents.

After serving in Congress and as governor of New Mexico, he practiced quasi-public diplomacy, working to secure the release of people he believed were being...

For Republicans in 2008, he briefly became a symbol of Middle America when he questioned the presidential candidate Barack Obama in an impromptu televised encounter.

The Trump Organization audaciously installed a distinctive clock on Fifth Avenue without applying for a permit or paying a fee. City inspectors never noticed.