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Byron Sher, former Peninsula state legislator and environmental champion, dies at 98
Byron Sher, an attorney and Stanford law professor who had spent nearly two decades in Palo Alto politics before he moved on to Sacramento and established himself as one of California’s leading environmental champions, died on Saturday, according to his family. He was 98. The post Byron Sher, former Peninsula state legislator and environmental champion, dies at 98 appeared first on The Almanac .
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Byron Sher, an attorney and Stanford law professor who had spent nearly two decades in Palo Alto politics before he moved on to Sacramento and established himself as one of California’s leading environmental champions, died on Saturday, according to his family. He was 98. The post Byron Sher, former Peninsula state legislator and environmental champion, dies at 98 appeared first on The Almanac .
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