PITTSBURGH, Dec. 31, 2020 -- Dick Thornburgh, former Pennsylvania Governor, U.S. attorney general and under-secretary-general of the United Nations, died peacefully of natural causes Thursday in Pittsburgh. He was 88. The governor's public career spanned 25 years, and he retired earlier in 2020 as counsel to the international law firm of K&L Gates LLP.
His wife, Ginny Judson Thornburgh, said that he had endured declining health to the end with "characteristic determination, grace and humor."