Ex-auditor and lawmaker Ed Flanagan dies at 66

Former Vermont auditor and state Sen. Ed Flanagan, the country’s first openly gay elected state official, died Friday morning. He was 66.
According to friend and current House member Mary Sullivan, Flanagan died surrounded by family. He had been living at a nursing facility in New Hampshire for the past several years.
Ed Flanagan. File photoFlanagan suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident in 2005 where he was stranded for 18 hours in a ravine off Interstate 89 in Richmond. He w