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PHOENIX (AP) - Evan Mecham, a firebrand conservative who served 15 months as Arizona's governor before a dramatic impeachment trial removed him from office in 1988, has died, his son said Friday. He was 83.
Mecham had been in deteriorating health with symptoms of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases for years and died Thursday of circumstances consistent with his age, son Dennis Mecham said.
The former governor, who always blamed his downfall on political enemies, had been at the Arizona State Veteran Home in Phoenix until recent weeks, when he went into hospice care, friends and family said.
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