Former Sen. Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming has died at age 93. Simpson died early Friday. A political moderate by current standards, Simpson’s three terms as senator from 1979 to 1997 covered the Republican Party’s rejuvenation under President Ronald Reagan.

Alan Simpson, an old school moderate Republican senator who helped craft major U.S. immigration reform in 1986 and made friends across the aisle, died on Friday in Cody, Wyoming, his family said in a statement.

Alan K. Simpson, the three-term Republican US senator from Wyoming who worked with Democrats to overhaul federal immigration law in 1986 and lead a deficit-reduction commission in 2010, has died. He was 93.