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HARTFORD, Conn.--Former Gov. Ella Grasso (D-Conn.) died last night at Hartford Hospital of complications resulting from cancer...
RESIGNED. Ella Grasso, 61, popular, twice-elected Democratic Governor of Connecticut whose victory in 1974 made her the first woman to govern a state without succeeding her husband; by reason of "physical disability" resulting from cancer of the liver; in Hartford, Conn. Daughter of immigrants from Italy's Piedmont region, she rose through the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives, marrying a school principal, Thomas Grasso, and rearing a daughter and son along the way. In a typically forthright announcement, she said she would yield to Lieutenant Governor William A. O'Neill...
...Davis Jr., joined the President at Camp David. He had taken along his cross-country skis in case there was snow, but he was disappointed. He made a few phone calls, one to his mother, still recuperating in Georgia from a broken hip, and another to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso, who was in a Hartford hospital undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the liver...
...President is not his brother's keeper." But Koch, a Carter backer, went on to say that "the Billy Carter scandal is a serious matter and will have an adverse impact on President Carter's chances for re-election." Said Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso: "I would have spanked Brother Billy a long time...
...Ella Grasso, Connecticut Governor, presenting her legislature with a sharply higher-tax, lower-spending budget to cover unexpected deficits: "This will be very brief-bare facts to cover bare bones...