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Robert Monagan | Former Calif. speaker, 88

Robert Monagan, 88, a former California Assembly speaker, has died. Mr. Monagan, a moderate Republican who also served in the Nixon administration, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Sacramento, Calif., according to his son, Mike.

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Robert Monagan, 88, a former California Assembly speaker, has died.

Mr. Monagan, a moderate Republican who also served in the Nixon administration, died Wednesday at a nursing home in Sacramento, Calif., according to his son, Mike.

He spent 12 years in the Assembly, becoming speaker after Republicans gained a majority in 1968. He was replaced by a Democrat, Bob Moretti, after Democrats regained control of the Assembly in 1970.

Mr. Monagan left the Assembly in 1973 to become assistant secretary of transportation under President Richard M. Nixon, returning to Sacramento the next year.

Former Gov. Pete Wilson, who served with Mr. Monagan in the Assembly, called him "one of California's great legislative leaders." - AP

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