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Associated Press - November 6, 2009 5:15 PM ET
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) - Legislation is headed to the president's desk to name a western New York post office after Jack Kemp, the quarterback-turned-politician who died in May.
The House of Representatives approved the bill on Friday. The Senate passed it in August.
The post office chosen to bear Kemp's name is in the Buffalo suburb of Orchard Park, where the Buffalo Bills play.
Kemp was quarterback of the team in the 1960s before going on to represent western New York for nine terms in Congress. He left the House for an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for president in 1988 and ran for vice president as Bob Dole's running mate in 1996.
The post office legislation was sponsored by New York Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
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