Editing Mike Mansfield (section)

==Final years and death==
[[File:Remarks by the President and Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker During Swearing-In Ceremony.jpg|thumb|right|Just a few months before his death, Mansfield appears behind [[Howard Baker]], the new U.S. Ambassador to Japan with [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]], June 26, 2001]]
Throughout his later years, Mansfield lived in Washington, D.C., where he remained active, delivering [[speaking engagement]]s well into his nineties and working from his office at Goldman Sachs until the week before his death.<ref name = Rosenbaum>{{cite news|url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/2001/10/06/issue.html|title = Mike Mansfield, Longtime Leader of Senate Democrats, Dies at 98|last = Rosenbaum|first = David|date = October 6, 2001|page = A1|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|accessdate = April 27, 2024|url-access = subscription}}</ref>

Mansfield's wife, Maureen, died on September 20, 2000.<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv87911|title = Mike Mansfield Papers, 1903-2002
|publisher = [[Orbis Cascade Alliance]]|accessdate = April 27, 2024}}</ref> 
He died from heart failure at [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center]] just over one year later, on October 5, 2001, at the age of 98.<ref name="mongolia2007" /><ref name = Rosenbaum/><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.newspapers.com/image/413429368/|title = A Mansfield century|newspaper = [[The Billings Gazette]]|date = October 6, 2001|page = 6A|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|accessdate = April 27, 2024|url-access = subscription}}</ref> He was survived by his daughter, Anne Fairclough Mansfield (1939–2013),<ref name="Washington post obituary Anne F Mansfield">{{cite web|accessdate=August 16, 2013
|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx?n=anne-f-mansfield&pid=164529118#fbLoggedOut 
|title=Anne F. Mansfield Obituary|date=April 24, 2013|work=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=Legacy.com}}</ref> and one granddaughter.

The [[grave (burial)|burial plot]] of Mansfield and his wife can be found in section 2, marker 49-69F of [[Arlington National Cemetery]].  His gravemarker reads, "Michael Joseph Mansfield - PVT, US Marine Corps."<ref name=MansfieldFellowshipProgram-Bio>{{cite web|accessdate=February 22, 2025|url=https://mansfieldfellows.org/establishment/about-mike-mansfield/
|title=About Mike Mansfield|publisher=Mansfield Fellowship Program, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation}}</ref>