Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has died at the age of 74. An official statement released via social media last Friday (July 19) confirmed her passing.

Jackson Lee was born on Jan. 12, 1950, in Queens, New York. She served on the Houston City Council from 1989 to 1994 and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1995.

Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat who during three decades in the U.S. House of Representatives became one of the most prominent Black members of Congress and a ubiquitous champion of African ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee passed away on July 19 at the age of 74 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, which she had publicly announced in June.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee speaks in support of Democratic gun control measures, called the Protecting Our Kids Act, in response to mass shootings in Texas and New York, at the Capitol in Washington ...

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee dies at 74, her family announces The longtime Congresswoman served the public for more than 30 years. Last month, she announced she was fighting pancreatic cancer.

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) died on Friday at the age of 74, one month after having publicly revealed that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat who had served in Congress since 1995, has died. Jackson Lee, who disclosed less than two months ago that she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ...

Sheila Jackson Lee, the longtime U.S. representative from Texas, has died, according to a statement issued Friday night from her family. The congresswoman died at the age of 74 after a brief ...

Sheila Jackson Lee, longtime Texas congresswoman, dies at 74 00:25. Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has died, her office announced Friday evening.She was 74 years old. A cause of death ...

Sheila Jackson Lee, outspoken Texas congresswoman, dies at 74. The long-serving Democrat, a champion of African American and women’s rights, announced in June that she had pancreatic cancer.