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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Catherine Baker Knoll, the first woman to be elected as Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, died Wednesday at 78.
Knoll was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer in July. She returned for the start of the fall Senate schedule in September but showed signs of fatigue and later that month said she would take more time off.
A former schoolteacher, Knoll served two terms as state treasurer beginning in 1988. When she won re-election in 1992, she received one of the largest vote totals ever for a statewide Democratic candidate.
