Former Speaker Jerome remembered as ‘down to earth’

'He was pleasant and down to earth,' says Liberal Senator Bill Rompkey about former Speaker James Jerome who died last week at 72.

James Jerome, former Speaker of the House of Commons, who died last week, was "pleasant and down to Earth," says Liberal Senator Bill Rompkey, who was an MP when Mr. Jerome was the Speaker from 1974 to 1980.

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