{"id":31046,"date":"2025-03-05T19:44:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularnews71.net\/?p=31046"},"modified":"2025-03-05T19:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:47:43","slug":"democrat-rep-sylvester-turner-dies-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popularnews71.net\/?p=31046","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Rep. Sylvester Turner Dies At 70"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Texas, died Tuesday night after having a medical emergency after President Trump\u2019s speech to Congress, according to two Democratic lawmakers in the House who were told about his death.<\/p>\n

He was 70 years old and had just become president in January. Turner had fought bone cancer in the past.<\/p>\n

According to a lawmaker who was at the meeting, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., told the Democrats that Turner had died and that his family had been told. The meeting was closed to the public.<\/p>\n

Another Democrat who saw Turner in the tunnel that goes under the Capitol and into the Cannon Building said it looked like Turner was having a medical emergency early Tuesday afternoon. The lawmaker said that Capitol Police were called and went to help him.<\/p>\n

Several Democrats said Wednesday that they saw Turner or talked to him on the House floor before Trump spoke to the whole Congress. Pictures and videos from the speech also show Turner sitting in the back of the room.<\/p>\n

When Turner ran for Congress in November, he had already been mayor of Houston from 2016 to 2024. Before that, he was a state lawmaker for more than twenty-five years.<\/p>\n

Longtime Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, died of pancreatic cancer in July of last year. Turner, who was close with Jackson Lee, said he would run for her seat, and local Democratic leaders chose him to be on the November ballot since Jackson Lee had already won her primary that March.<\/p>\n