Washington – Democratic representative Raúl Grijalva died after a “long and brave war” against cancer on Thursday morning, according to his office.
“This morning he passed away because of the complications of cancer treatments,” his office said in a statement. He said.
77 -year -old Grijalva announced in April that he had cancer after looking for medical treatment for a permanent cough initially diagnosed with pneumonia. He said the diagnosis was “hard to process”. In July, Grijalva said that he had finished cancer therapy “for now” and tried to regain his physical power to return to Washington DC.
Since 2003, the Congress has been working in Congress for a long time for this year’s vote.
“It was the honor of Raúl M. Grijalva’s life to serve South Arizona.” He said.
He is a second member of Democratic Assembly who died this month. Democratic Representative Texas Sylvester Turner dead At the beginning of March, weeks after starting.
