endell Anderson, former Minnesota governor, dead at 83

Former Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson, who appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1973 with a big northern pike and wide grin as a symbol of his state’s good life, but then alienated voters when he appointed himself to a vacant U.S. Senate seat, died Sunday, a state official said.

Anderson, 83, had struggled with Alzheimer’s for some time before dying of pneumonia while in hospice in St. Paul, said his son, Brett Anderson.

“Old age was his least favorite part of life,” Brett Anderson said a few hours after his father’s death, which followed a “precipitous physical decline” in the past few months.

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