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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. ....