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OCALA, Fla. — Former Florida Gov. Buddy MacKay passed away at the age of 91.
MacKay served in the military, the Florida House and the Florida Senate before he served as lieutenant governor under then-governor and Democrat Lawton Chiles.
Chiles then had a heart attack and died in December of that year.
MacKay ran for governor himself in November 1998, but lost to Republican Jeb Bush.
MacKay took over as governor for a couple of weeks until Bush was inaugurated in January.
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