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  Former Gov. Thomas Meskill Dies
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Last EditedMadViking  Oct 29, 2007 08:14pm
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News DateTuesday, October 30, 2007 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionFormer Gov. and U.S. Rep. Thomas J. Meskill died early Monday in Florida, his wife said. He was 79.

He had the blood disorder myelodysplasia and had gone to the Bethesda Memorial Hospital in Boynton Beach, Fla., on Sunday to have blood drawn. Mary Meskill, his wife of 52 years, said he died of a heart attack at the hospital about 4 a.m. Thomas Meskill, a Republican, was governor from 1971 to 1975.

In a brief phone interview from her home in Delray Beach, Fla., Mary Meskill said she was too distraught to answer questions.
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