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  Former Georgia governor dies at 86 (Vandiver)
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Last EditedThomas Walker  Feb 22, 2005 04:14pm
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News DateTuesday, February 22, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Former Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver, who won office vowing that "no, not one" black child would integrate a Georgia classroom, but went on to preside over peaceful desegregation, has died at age 86.

He died Monday evening, the family said Tuesday through Gov. Sonny Perdue's office.

Governor from 1959 to 1963, Vandiver had been elected on an anti-integration platform but at a critical moment persuaded lawmakers to repeal a law requiring schools to be closed rather than desegregated.

His stand was credited with sparing the state the turbulence that swept much of the rest of the South in that period, but at the time it cost him political support. He left office in 1963 when his four-year term ended, and said later that keeping the schools open was "my political suicide."

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