Posted on 04/05/2011 1:13:46 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE — Ned McWherter, a onetime factory worker who became a millionaire businessman and two-term Democratic governor after two decades as a legislator, died Monday afternoon. He was 80.
Madelyn Pritchett, his longtime assistant, said McWherter died after a battle against cancer at Centennial Hospital in Nashville where he had been taken Saturday.
McWherter, of Dresden, was governor from 1987 to 1995, following 20 years in the Legislature — and 14 as House speaker. He also was political adviser to Bill Clinton during his presidency.
A child of sharecroppers, he became a millionaire through various business enterprises before entering politics.
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Old Ned made his money the hard way, he married it.
Ned made me a Republican. RIP.
Ned was the one who pushed through TennCare and almost bankrupted Tennessee. A vision of ObamaCare to come. Also known as “rubber-stamp” Ned, as he wouldn’t veto a bill raising the legislator’s pay even though he claimed to be against it “cause they voted for it and they can do that.”
Absolutely worthless.
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