KELLEY SHANNON Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas - Two years before she was elected governor of Texas, Ann Richards electrified the 1988 Democratic National Convention with a keynote speech in which she joked that the Republican presidential nominee, George H.W. Bush, had been “born with a silver foot in his mouth.”

A longtime champion of women and minorities in government who was serving at the time as Texas state treasurer, she won cheers when she reminded delegates that Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, “only backwards and in high heels.”

Richards died Wednesday at 73 after a battle with esophageal cancer.

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This woman was absolutely wonderful. She will be missed.