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Jay Rockefeller, former West Virginia governor and US senator who was part of a dynasty, dies at 89

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Jay Rockefeller, the last member of his family’s political dynasty — and the only Democrat — who served as West Virginia’s governor and later a longtime US senator, has died. He was 89.

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