Neil Goldschmidt, once a beloved politician known for revamping Oregon’s economy but who fell from grace after the public’s discovery of his sexual abuse of a neighborhood girl, died at 83 from heart failure on Wednesday.

He died in his Portland, Oregon, home surrounded by family two days before his 84th birthday.

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