Former South Dakota Governor Janklow dies at 72

12 January 2012, 4:21 pm

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (Reuters) - Former four-term South Dakota Governor Bill Janklow, an outspoken, brash fixture of the state whose political career was brought to an end by a traffic accident, died on Thursday of brain cancer, state officials said. Janklow, 72, said in November he was dying from a "very far advanced" cancer he had learned about only a few weeks earlier. He said the cancer ...... Read More »

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