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Obituary: Mallory Horne, only Florida legislator to serve as leader in both chambers, dies at 84 

Mallory Horne, the only person to serve as Florida's Senate president and House speaker since Reconstruction, and later was the target of a federal money-laundering probe, died Thursday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 84. . . .

Mr. Horne returned to the state capital in the 1990s, spending several years as the legal counsel for his longtime friend, the late Gov. Lawton Chiles. He was instrumental in helping Chiles with legislation that helped Florida collect billions of dollars from tobacco companies.

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