Linwood Holton Jr, 1st GOP Va Governor of 20th Century, Dies

A. Linwood Holton Jr., Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination, died Thursday. He was 98.Holton, who served from 1970 to 1974, declared an end to “Massive Resistance,” Virginia’s institutional defiance of…

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