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  John Spanish, colorful Iron Range legislator, dies at 90
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Last EditedRBH  Dec 19, 2011 04:04am
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News DateMonday, December 19, 2011 10:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionJohn Spanish, a World War II veteran from Hibbing who served four terms in the Minnesota Legislature but was turned back in 13 subsequent tries for office, has died. He was 90.

Spanish, a lifelong bachelor, died Monday at St. Raphael’s Health-Rehab Center in Eveleth, according to Dougherty Funeral Home in Hibbing. Funeral arrangements are pending.

After serving on the Hibbing Village Council for nine years, Spanish was first elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1969 in a nonpartisan election. He returned to the House in 1973 and served three terms.

Spanish received national notoriety in 1978 for introducing a bill to allow elderly, blind or disabled people to hunt and fish without licenses. Aaron Brown, a columnist for the Hibbing Tribune and author of an Iron Range blog called “Minnesota Brown,” said Spanish had told him in later years that “he very much regretted that legislation and felt that he was treated a little unfairly because he was asked to carry the bill.”
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