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Idaho Governor Andrus’ legacy: Idaho’s wild spaces, schools, nuclear cleanup

Cecil Andrus, a Democrat and the longest-serving governor of Idaho, who saved Castle Peak from miners and engineered the protection of 25 percent of Alaska as wilderness, wildlife refuges and national parks, died Thursday.

Andrus went from logging in Orofino to the governor’s mansion in 1970 before Jimmy Carter made him Idaho’s first presidential Cabinet member, recruiting him as Interior secretary from 1977 to 1981. He returned to Idaho and won back the governor’s desk in 1986, championing increased support for education. He went on to serve four total terms as governor.

BY ROCKY BARKER
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Full Story: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article169280227.html

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