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Obit Jay Rockefeller
FILE - President Bill Clinton, left, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., right, arrive at the West Virginia State Capitol Building in Charleston, West Virginia on August 9, 1993.
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Jay Rockefeller, the last member of his family’s political dynasty who served as West Virginia’s governor and later a longtime U.S. senator, has died. He was 89. Rockefeller died Thursday night at his home in Washington. Rockefeller came from one of the nation’s richest families to spend a half century in public service in one of the poorest states. He arrived in 1964 as a worker in an anti-poverty program, was elected governor a dozen years later and served two terms, then spent 30 years as a U.S. senator.
