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==Hainkel's death==
==Hainkel's death==
Hainkel's longtime law partner, William Porteous, said that Hainkel had been at a meeting near Poplarville in Pearl River County in southwestern [[Mississippi]] on April 14, 2005, with other Republican lawmakers and was found dead in his bed the next morning. "They were at a camp. He just didn't wake up," Porteous explained. A coroner's report revealed that Hainkel asphyxiated. Apparently, fluid blocked his breathing passages as he slept and entered his lungs. (He did not succumb to [[heart failure]], as originally thought.) He had spent his last evening cooking for friends, eating, and recounting political "war stories."
Hainkel's longtime law partner, William Porteous, said that Hainkel had been at a meeting near Poplarville in Pearl River County in southwestern [[Mississippi]] on April 14, 2005, with other Republican lawmakers and was found dead in his bed the next morning. "They were at a camp. He just didn't wake up," Porteous explained. A coroner's report revealed that Hainkel asphyxiated. Apparently, fluid blocked his breathing passages as he slept and entered his lungs. (He did not succumb to heart failure, as originally thought.) He had spent his last evening cooking for friends, eating, and recounting political "war stories."
"I couldn't picture John Hainkel going out any other way," said then-Senator [[Tom Schedler]], a Mandeville Republican and one of his closest friends, who later became Louisiana secretary of state.
"I couldn't picture John Hainkel going out any other way," said then-Senator [[Tom Schedler]], a Mandeville Republican and one of his closest friends, who later became Louisiana secretary of state.