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SUNDAY, AUGUST 27, 2017 ❘ THE GAZETTE ❘ B 7
OBITUARIES DEATH ELSEWHERE Cecil D. Andrus managed huge swaths of public land as a Cabinet member in President Jimmy Carter’s administration and was the longest-serving governor in Idaho history, but the former lumberjack was known as an approachable everyman who listed his number in the local phone directory. Andrus. 85, died late Thursday, the Andrus Center for Public Policy said. His daughter, Tracy Andrus, said he died of complications from lung cancer. Andrus resigned midway through his second term as Idaho governor in 1977 to become Carter’s secretary
of the Interior Department and served until Carter’s term ended in 1981. He then was elected governor two more times. He also was the last Democrat to hold the office in red-state Idaho. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OBITUARIES DEATH ELSEWHERE Cecil D. Andrus managed huge swaths of public land as a Cabinet member in President Jimmy Carter’s administration and was the longest-serving governor in Idaho history, but the former lumberjack was known as an approachable everyman who listed his number in the local phone directory. Andrus. 85, died late Thursday, the Andrus Center for Public Policy said. His daughter, Tracy Andrus, said he died of complications from lung cancer. Andrus resigned midway through his second term as Idaho governor in 1977 to become Carter’s secretary
of the Interior Department and served until Carter’s term ended in 1981. He then was elected governor two more times. He also was the last Democrat to hold the office in red-state Idaho. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
