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Ned McWherter dies
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NED McWHERTER
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Ned McWherter, a one-time factory worker who became a millionaire businessman, speaker of the state House and then a two-term Democratic governor, has died at the age 80. His administrative assistant, Madelyn Pritchett, says McWherter of Dresden died Monday at a Nashville hospital where he was being treated for cancer. McWherter was governor from 1987 to 1995, following 20 years in the Legislature, 14 of them leading the House.