MIAMI (AP) - Henry Kimelman, whose fundraising and support for Sen. George McGovern in the 1972 presidential campaign earned him a spot on President Richard Nixon's "enemies list," has died. He was 88.

Kimelman died Monday of heart failure at his home in West Palm Beach, his son Donald said Wednesday.

Henry Kimelman turned to politics after building a business career in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He was chief of staff for Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall during the final year of the Johnson administration. During his time in Washington, he befriended Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota.

Kimelman encouraged McGovern to pursue the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination and became the senator's chief fundraiser. Kimelman's his house in Washington was the scene where the campaign told Sen. Thomas Eagleton that he could not continue to be McGovern's running mate after it was revealed he had received electroshock treatment for depression, Donald Kimelman said.

His support for McGovern landed him on Nixon's notorious "enemies list" of 200 political opponents.

President Jimmy Carter named Kimelman ambassador to Haiti in 1980, during the regime of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier.