- Rep. Donald McEachin of Virginia died on Monday just after battling colorectal most cancers. He was 61.
- McEachin, a Democrat, experienced just been reelected to a fourth term in office previously this thirty day period.
- “Up until finally the really stop, Don was a fighter,” Sen. Mark Warner reported in a statement on Monday.
Rep. Donald McEachin, a Democrat from Virginia, died on Monday following battling colorectal cancer, in accordance to his congressional workplace.
He was 61 several years aged.
“We are all devastated at the passing of our manager and mate, Congressman Donald McEachin,” McEachin chief of staff members Tara Rountree mentioned in a statement on Monday night. “Valiantly, for decades now, we have watched him struggle and triumph above the secondary outcomes of his colorectal most cancers from 2013. Tonight, he misplaced that fight, and the men and women of Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District shed a hero who constantly, constantly fought for them and set them very first.”
Democratic Sen. Mark Warner remembered McEachin fondly on Monday evening.
“Up until the quite end, Don was a fighter,” Warner said in a assertion. “Even even though he battled most cancers and faced other trials in latest several years, he by no means dropped his aim on social and environmental justice. Tonight, Virginia has misplaced a fantastic chief and I have shed a excellent friend.”
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who recalled meeting McEachin for the first time in 1985, also spoke of his marriage with the congressman in his remembrance.
“Our little ones were the same age, we shared a statewide ticket with Mark Warner [in 2001], and we’ve been with each other in the Virginia federal delegation for yrs,” Kaine claimed in a statement. “I was final with him on election evening a few months in the past, celebrating his win.”
McEachin had just been reelected to a fourth time period representing the Commonwealth’s 4th Congressional district, which consists of the point out capital, Richmond, and pieces of suburban Henrico and Chesterfield counties, as well as the Tri-Towns area and section of Hampton Roads.
Right before his election to Congress, McEachin, an attorney, served in the Virginia Dwelling of Delegates and the Virginia Senate.
In 2001, he was the Democratic nominee for state attorney general, but dropped the election to Republican Jerry Kilgore.
