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Former Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson dies
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 17, 2016 04:03pm |
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| Author | Associated Press |
| News Date | Sunday, July 17, 2016 08:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ST. PAUL, Minn. — Former Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson, a former U.S. Olympian who was described in a 1973 Time magazine cover article as the youthful embodiment of his home state only to lose public confidence later by arranging his own appointment to the U.S. Senate, died Sunday. He was 83.
Gov. Mark Dayton's office said Anderson's family and friends were with him when he died at Our Lady of Peace hospice care in St. Paul. A Dayton spokesman didn't know the cause of death.
Anderson, who was a member of the silver medal-winning U.S. hockey team in the 1956 Olympics, was first elected governor in 1970 at the age of 37.
The next year, he pushed through an overhaul of school aid and taxes that became known as the "Minnesota miracle." In a special legislative session that stretched more than five months past normal deadlines, Anderson outmaneuvered the conservative-dominated Legislature by rejecting an alternate tax plan he called "the old way of doing things." The victory gave him latitude to pursue Democratic priorities such as environmental safeguards, a minimum wage increase and programs for housing, seniors and drug abuse. |
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