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Former Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn was native Arkansan

Kenny Guinn, the former governor of Nevada, died Thursday after a fall from the roof of his Las Vegas, Nev. He was 73.

Dema, his wife of 54 years, found him on the ground unconscious about 10:30 a.m. PDT Thursday. He was declared dead at a Las Vegas hospital just after 11 a.m.

Guinn was born in Aug. 24, 1936, in Garland, Ark., in Miller County. But his family moved to California when he was a child, eventually winding up in Exeter in the San Joaquin Valley.

He moved to Las Vegas for a teaching job and wound up as the Clark County superintendent of schools.

A moderate Republican noted for bringing people from both parties together, Guinn was governor from 1999 to 2007.