Former New Jersey Gov. Jim Florio (D), who spent 15 years in the U.S. House before he became his state’s governor in 1990, pushing through one of the strongest gun-control laws in the country but also an unprecedented tax hike that drove him from office after a single term, died on Sunday, the Washington Post reports.
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