U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin, D-Va., died Monday after a battle with colorectal cancer, his office said. He was 61.
Tara Rountree, McEachin's chief of staff, said in a statement late Monday: "Valiantly, for years now, we have watched him fight and triumph over the secondary effects of his colorectal cancer from 2013. Tonight, he lost that battle."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called her late colleague "a tireless champion for Virginia families and a force for economic opportunity and environmental justice." Rep. Gerry Connelly, D-Va., called McEachin an "environmentalist, civil rights advocate, faithful public servant, and a man of consequence. There was no better ally to have."
He graduated from St. Christopher’s School in Richmond in 1979, then earned a bachelor’s degree at American University in 1982 and a law degree at the University of Virginia in 1986. He earned a master of divinity degree at Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University in 2008.
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