The late Gov. Al Quie became the 19th political figure to lie in state in the Minnesota Capitol Rotunda, where family members and state leaders gathered to pay tribute.
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Gov. Tim Walz ordered flags be lowered to half-staff as former Minnesota governor and congressman Al Quie lies in state at the Minnesota State Capitol on Friday.
Al Quie was a Minnesota governor and longtime member of Congress. But it was in his role as a church committeeman, a lifetime ago, that he reached out to a stranger and formed an unexpected family bond that endures to this day.