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Catholic. First Republican and first Catholic governor of Illinois. Died, at least partly from syphilis, which had crippled him, in the Illinois Executive Mansion, Springfield, Sangamon County, Ill., March 18, 1860 (age 48 years, 328 days). Original interment at Hutchinson Cemetery, Springfield...