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Bookmark or Share- Lawton Chiles - National Governors AssociationChiles was one of the nation’s most vocal tobacco critics, and helped his cause by sneaking a law through the legislature that stripped Big Tobacco of several key defenses. Just three weeks before he was to leave office, he died suddenly of a heart attack on Dec. 12, 1998.
- Lawton Chiles - WikipediaLawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Florida from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 until his death in 1998.
- Gov. Lawton Chiles of Florida, Populist and Former Senator, Dies at 68 ...Florida Gov Lawton Chiles, who served three terms as Democratic Senator and was elected to two terms as governor, dies at Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee; he was 68; medical examiner says...
- Washingtonpost.com: Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles DiesLawton Chiles, 68, the Florida Democrat who spent 18 years in the U.S. Senate before serving the past eight as governor--all the while gaining a reputation as a talented and folksy Southern...
- Remembering Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles 25 years after his deathFriends of Gov. Lawton Chiles gathered for lunch on the 25th anniversary of his death Tuesday to tell tales about the shrewd and folksy “he coon,” whose two terms in the Governor’s Mansion...
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