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Laurel: To a life lived in service to others. On the last day of 2020, Pennsylvania lost a bedrock political figure.
Dick Thornburgh, a two-term governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, died at the age of 88.
He left behind a legacy of work for justice, fair treatment and steady leadership. It is an example that anyone in government and everyone in his Republican Party should aspire to meet.
“In a day when true bipartisanship is needed, Gov. Thornburgh’s example of working together, crossing aisles and placing his efforts and passions into making our world a better place,” said Allegehny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, a Democrat.
Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as US attorney general restored credibility to a Justice Department hurt by the. Politics News Summaries. | Newser
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Former federal attorney general and Pennsylvania Gov. Dick Thornburgh has died at age 88.
Thornburgh died Thursday morning at a retirement community facility outside Pittsburgh, his son David said. The cause is not yet known.
Thornburgh built a reputation as a crime-busting federal prosecutor in Pittsburgh and won praise for his cool handling as governor of the Three Mile Island partial nuclear meltdown in 1979.
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Former Pa. Gov. Dick Thornburgh remembered as a leader who was right for his time
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
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Former Gov. Dick Thornburgh wasn’t the most charismatic governor Pennsylvania ever had.
He wasn’t the most beloved. Succeeding Govs. Robert P. Casey, Tom Ridge, Ed Rendell and Tom Wolf all won re-election by significantly larger vote margins.
He also wasn’t the most visionary. The public policy initiative that many remember Thornburgh for the most was being the first governor to push for an end to the state’s monopoly on liquor sales. Forty years later, Pennsylvania’s state stores are still around.