Word: ataxia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Personally he had little to gain by the pardon and much to lose; in fact, he lost the governorship at the next election, and later could not even get elected Mayor of Chicago. He died a relatively poor man at a relatively early age (55) in 1902, of locomotor ataxia. He was mourned by thousands, among them Poet Vachel Lindsay, who as a boy had known him as governor in Springfield...