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Jim Guy Tucker, Arkansas governor toppled by loan scandal, dies at 81

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Jim Guy Tucker was governor of Arkansas after Clinton was elected president in 1992 .

Tucker resigned four years later after being convicted in a loan fraud case.

Tucker had battled ulcerative colitis and a liver-damaging disease known as primary sclerosing cholangitis.

Tucker was the only high-ranking figure found guilty in the Whitewater investigations.

The case was not directly linked to the abandoned Whitewater project, but portrayed by Republicans and other Clinton critics as validation of Starr ’s work.

Mr. Tucker rarely talked publicly about his conviction and resignation, preferring in interviews to discuss his time in office.

He was given probation for four years , with home detention for the first 18 months , and ordered to pay $ 294,000 in restitution.

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