Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington was released from the hospital where he had his cancerous prostate removed.
The 56-year-old underwent surgery Monday at a Phoenix hospital. He was released Wednesday.
Symington was diagnosed with prostate cancer in early October. He has battled skin cancer for more than two decades and has had 140 cancer spots removed.
He resigned as governor after being convicted by a jury in 1997 of six counts of fraud involving the falsification of financial information submitted to lenders during his years as a real estate developer. The conviction was overturned in 1999. He was pardoned by then-President Clinton in January as prosecutors were pursuing the case anew.
But his legal troubles continued as he fought a group of union pension funds in U.S. Bankruptcy Court that were seeking to recover a $10 million loan Symington used to finance the Mercado, a retail-office complex in downtown Phoenix.
The case wrapped up in September when a judge approved a settlement under which Symington agreed to pay the funds $2 million.
Since leaving office, Symington has kept busy as a restaurant entrepreneur and a political sounding board for friends.