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…showed last 75 words of 895 total…last journey home. He had a stone in his bladder, which made carriage travel an agony. In Philadelphia he was elected to the executive council of the state and a few days later chosen president, serving three years. He had to stay in bed for the whole last year of his life, taking opium for pain. He was 84 years old when he died. Philadelphia gave him the most impressive funeral the city had ever seen.