Texas Democratic freshman Rep. Sylvester Turner, who spent nearly three decades as a state lawmaker and eight years as Houston mayor, died on Wednesday just two months into his first term in Congress.
Turner’s family said in a statement that he had been taken to a hospital Tuesday after attending President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress and later released.
“On Wednesday, March 5, at approximately 5:45 a.m., he died at his home from enduring health complications,” the statement read. “Congressman Turner was the consummate public servant. But to us, he was our beloved father, grandfather, sibling and relative.”
