Herman Cain, Former C.E.O. and Presidential Candidate, Dies at 74 (original) (raw)

Politics|Herman Cain, Former C.E.O. and Presidential Candidate, Dies at 74

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Mr. Cain sought the 2012 Republican nomination and became an early supporter of Donald Trump’s 2016 bid. He had been hospitalized with the coronavirus.

Herman Cain in 2014. He attended President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., last month and tested positive for the coronavirus shortly after.Credit...Molly Riley/Associated Press

Published July 30, 2020Updated Aug. 3, 2020

Herman Cain, who rose from poverty in the segregated South to become chief executive of a successful pizza chain and then thrust himself into the national spotlight by seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has died. He was 74.

His death was announced on Thursday on his website and on social media accounts. It did not say precisely when or where he died. Dan Calabrese, the website’s editor, attributed the death to the coronavirus, which President Trump, in a White House briefing, later referred to as the “China virus” and a “horrible plague” in affirming it as the cause.

Mr. Cain had been hospitalized in the Atlanta area this month after testing positive for the virus on June 29.

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Mr. Cain in 1971, the year he earned a master’s degree in computer science at Purdue University.Credit...Cain family, via Zumapress

“We knew when he was first hospitalized with Covid-19 that this was going to be a rough fight,” Mr. Calabrese said in the announcement, adding, “Although he was basically pretty healthy in recent years, he was still in a high-risk group because of his history with cancer.” Mr. Cain had overcome colon and liver cancer in the mid-2000s.

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