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Nation's oldest man dies at 111 in Rock Island

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CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -

Shelby Harris, the oldest man in the United States, died in Rock Island last week. He was 111 years old.

The Quad City Times reports that he was the third-oldest man in the world and oldest man in the country when he died on Wednesday.

A spokesperson from his nursing home says he died in his sleep of natural causes.

Harris was born in southern Indiana in 1901, and was the oldest person ever to be born in the state.

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