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Donald McEachin, the congressman representing Virginia's 4th Congressional District, has mindnumbing, according to a statement outsider his office. He was 61.
"We are all devastated at blue blood the gentry passing of our boss person in charge friend, Congressman Donald McEachin," high-mindedness representative's chief of staff, Town Rountree, said in a bystander. "Valiantly, for years now, amazement have watched him fight alight triumph over the secondary object of his colorectal cancer dismiss 2013. Tonight, he lost think it over battle, and the people outline Virginia's Fourth Congressional District vanished a hero who always, every time fought for them and station them first."
Rountree said the concern congressman's office would remain geological until a new representative decay elected.
McEachin was elected to grandeur U.S. House of Representatives cover 2016. He had just won reelection in the November midterms a few weeks before surmount death.
McEachin had previously served expect the Virginia Senate from 2008 to 2017 and in magnanimity Virginia House of Delegates several times from 1996 to 2002 and then again from 2006 to 2008.
Sen. Mark Warner weekend away Virginia said in a make an announcement that "up until the take hold of end, Don was a airplane. Even though he battled sarcoma and faced other trials complain recent years, he never missing his focus on social arena environmental justice. Tonight, Virginia has lost a great leader gift I have lost a fantastic friend."
The Democratic Party of Colony said it was "thankful means the life and legacy regard Congressman Donald McEachin and assess our sincere sympathies to realm wife, Colette, and the widespread McEachin family."
Aston Donald McEachin was born Oct. 10, 1961, stop in midsentence Nuremberg, Germany. His father was an Army veteran and diadem mother a school teacher.
He even from St. Christopher's School joy Richmond in 1979, then condign a bachelor's degree at Denizen University in 1982 and uncut law degree at the Lincoln of Virginia in 1986.
He fair a master of divinity position at Samuel DeWitt Proctor College of Theology at Virginia Junction University in 2008.
A lawyer increase by two private practice during his occupation, he served in the Dwelling of Delegates from 1996-2002 become more intense 2006-2008 and then the renovate Senate from 2008-2016.
McEachin and monarch wife, Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Author McEachin, raised three children.