BRIDGTON – The son of former U.S. Sen. Warren Rudman of New Hampshire has been found dead in his home in Bridgton.

Alan Rudman, 47, was last seen alive the night of Wednesday, Feb. 25.

Warren Rudman called some Bridgton residents Thursday and asked them to check on his son, and they found his body in the afternoon and called police, police Sgt. Douglas Taft Sr. said.

Taft said Rudman died alone. The cause of death was not known, but there were no signs of a suspicious death, and no signs the death was a suicide. The Maine medical examiner planned to make a routine examination of the body.

The younger Rudman struggled for years with alcohol problems, and in 1998 was sentenced to three years in Hillsborough County jail after his fourth drunken-driving conviction.

He moved to Maine about three or four years ago.

Rudman played varsity football at Dartmouth College and graduated in 1979. He received his law degree from Boston College in 1983, and was admitted to the bars in Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia.

He was convicted of drunken driving in New Jersey in 1995, in Vermont and Keene in 1997, and in Nashua in 1998.

During a sentencing hearing on the Nashua charge, his psychiatrist said Rudman was an alcoholic and suffered from depression. He said Rudman had been hospitalized at least four times since 1996.

He was sentenced to three years in jail, but was eligible for time off if he completed a drug-and-alcohol treatment program.