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After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.

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Dick Thornburgh
Age: 88 †
Born: 1932
Born: July 16
Died: 2020
Died: December 31
Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Richard Lewis Thornburgh
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