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Bush's Nominee for Navy Secretary Dies of Gunshot

US oilman Colin McMillan, President George W. Bush's nominee for Navy secretary, died at his ranch in New Mexico from an apparent gunshot wound, investigators said Friday.


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US oilman Colin McMillan, President George W. Bush's nominee for Navy secretary, died at his ranch in New Mexico from an apparent gunshot wound, investigators said Friday.
The investigators said all indications showed it could be suicide, but they would not reach the final conclusion until the investigation was over.

McMillan's body was found by two employees on his ranch in southern New Mexico on Thursday, and the state medical investigator's office was conducting an autopsy Friday to determine a cause of death, according to Tim Stepetic, the office's associate director.

President Bush and his wife Laura expressed his condolence to McMillan's death, saying they were "saddened by the death of our good friend."

"Colin was a public servant and patriot who served his country and state," Bush said in a statement.

Senator Pete Domenici, a Republican from New Mexico, said Friday on the Senate floor that McMillan "had a recurrence of cancer," but "everybody thought he was recovered."

Bush submitted McMillan's nomination to the Senate for approval in May. McMillan was expected to replace Gordon England, who left the position of Navy secretary to become deputy secretary of the new Homeland Security Department.

McMillan, 67, was chairman of Bush's New Mexico presidential campaign in 2000. He lived in Roswell, New Mexico and ran Permian Exploration Corp.

McMillan was born in Texas and graduated from the University of North Carolina. He served in the Marine Corps from 1957 to 1972 and was an assistant defense secretary in the early 1990s when Vice-President Dick Cheney was the defense secretary.


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