Mario Cuomo, Governor and Galvanizing Orator, Dies at 82
His eloquence energized Democrats, yet he never sought the presidency himself.
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Mario Cuomo, the three-term New York governor who oversaw the state’s economic renewal through the 1980s and was the longest-serving Democrat to hold the post, has died. He was 82.
He died yesterday at home in Manhattan from natural causes resulting from heart failure, his family said in a statement released by the office of his son, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was sworn in to his second term hours earlier in the day.