Kenneth A. Plante
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Kenneth A. Plante (December 17, 1939 – March 1, 2015) was an American politician in the state of
Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
. Plante was born in Orlando and attended the
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. He was elected to the State Senate for the 16th district in 1966 and served until 1972. He was redistricted to the 14th district in 1973, and served until 1978. He is a member of the Republican party. In 2012, he was diagnosed with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most comm ...
(ALS). He died of the disease in March 2015.


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2015 deaths 1939 births Republican Party Florida state senators {{Florida-politician-stub