Kathleen Blanco, governor of Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, has died at the age of 76
Blanco announced in 2017 that she was being treated for ocular melanoma and said in December 2018 that there was"no escape" from the incurable cancer. She entered into hospice care in April earlier this year. Blanco passed away at a hospice center in Lafayette surrounded by her husband, children and other family members, Edwards said."Louisianans owe a debt of gratitude to Gov.
She was elected in 2003 after defeating Republican Bobby Jindal, and held office from 2004 to 2008. Read MoreHer tenure came to be defined by Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, and Hurricane Rita one month later. Blanco was widely criticized for what some called an inadequate response to the storms, which devastated the city of New Orleans. More than 1,500 people in Louisiana died as a result of Katrina, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced.
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