CALHOUN, Ga. (AP) — Bert Lance, a Georgia banker and ally of former President Jimmy Carter who served as his first budget director before departing amid a highprofile investigation of his banking activities, died on Thursday evening. He was 82.
Lance died at home in northwest Georgia, Gordon County deputy coroner Heath Derryberry said. He said Lance had struggled recently with unspecified health problems, though authorities were unsure of his cause of death.
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