Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner has died at 70. The Houston native had served 27 years in the Texas Legislature and eight years as his home city's mayor. He became representative for the 18th Congressional District after U.

Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-TX), a freshman member of Congress, died at 70. After recovering from bone cancer in 2022, he announced he was “cancer-free.” Turner filled the seat’s vacancy after the death of longtime House Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee.

Sylvester Turner, the former mayor of Houston who won election last November to fill late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee's seat in District 18, has died, ABC13 learned Wednesday morning. He was 70.