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Associated Press - November 12, 2009 7:55 AM ET
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - George McGovern's chief campaign fundraiser, who appeared on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list," has died in Florida. Henry Kimelman was 88.
Donald Kimelman says his father died Monday of heart failure at his home in West Palm Beach.
Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota credited Henry Kimelman's encouragement to pursue the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. That support earned Kimelman a spot on Nixon's "enemies list" of 200 political opponents.
President Jimmy Carter named Kimelman the ambassador to Haiti in 1980, during the regime of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.
Kimelman was also a prominent businessman in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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