Mario M. Cuomo, who served three terms as Governor but is perhaps best remembered for his soaring eloquence that electrified the 1984 Democratic presidential convention and his failure to seek the party’s nomination eight years later after having taken the preparatory steps for a White House bid, died Jan. 1, a few hours after his son Andrew began the fifth term in which a Cuomo has run New York. He was 82.
His failing health had been apparent two months earlier, when he looked frail at his son’s Election Night victory party and was hospitalized soon afterward with what was said to be heart problems.
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