Former Iowa governor Robert Ray is dead. A statement from his family says Ray died Sunday in Des Moines of natural causes. Ray was elected to a two-year term 1968, then again in 1970 and 1972. During that time, the state constitution was changed to give the governor a four-year term. He was then elected in 1974 and 1978. Ray left office in 1983. He's perhaps best known for having Iowa accept more than a million refugees from southeast Asia in the 1970's. Ray was 89