Word: tingley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Clyde Tingley, 77, two-term Governor of New Mexico (1935-39) who was born in an Ohio log cabin, became proudly skilled as a political logroller (boasting that he brought $100 million in New Deal projects to the state) and proudly independent as a grammarian ("I ain't gonna quit saying 'ain't'"); of a heart attack; in Albuquerque. A vanishing echo of The Last Hurrah school, Tingley ran Albuquerque politics for 37 years from a hotel-lobby easy chair...