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December 03, 1999|ELAINE WOO | TIMES STAFF WRITER. Gene Rayburn, the actor and veteran quiz show host best known for emceeing television's The Match Game, has died. He was 81. Rayburn died Monday at his home near Gloucester, Mass., of congestive heart failure, said his daughter, Lynne Rayburn.
Mr. Rayburn, who served longer as Representative and Speaker than any other man in history, will lie in state tomorrow at the Sam Rayburn Library for twenty-four hours while officials gather for the funeral. He was Speaker for seventeen years. Insisted on Working. It was disclosed that Mr. Rayburn had known since Sept. 27 that he had cancer.