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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Former Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh, who made integrity and efficiency the hallmarks of his public service as a governor, U.S. attorney general and under-secretary-general of the United Nations, died peacefully of natural causes today in Pittsburgh, PA. He was 88. The governor s public career spanned 25 years, and he retired earlier in 2020 as counsel to the international law firm of K&L Gates LLP.
His wife, Ginny Judson Thornburgh, said that he had endured declining health to the end with characteristic determination, grace and humor.
Former U.S. Attorney General and Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh
Richard Thornburgh, Former Governor and Attorney General, Dies at 88
He steered Pennsylvania through the Three Mile Island nuclear plant meltdown and led the Justice Department under Reagan and the first President Bush.
Richard Thornburgh at the State Capitol in Harrisburg in December 1978, when he was the governor-elect of Pennsylvania. He was the only Republican to serve two successive terms as the state’s governor (1979 to 1987).Credit.Paul Vathis/Associated Press
Dec. 31, 2020
Dick Thornburgh, a two-term Republican governor of Pennsylvania who coped with America’s worst nuclear power meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 and later served as United States attorney general under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush, died on Thursday at a retirement home in Oakmont, Pa., outside Pittsburgh. He was 88.