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Tributes have been pouring in for Democratic Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas since he died after attending President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress.
The of legendary boxer is running to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner in Houston's 18th Congressional District.
Former Houston Mayor and U.S. Representative Sylvester Turner will be honored in this year’s Acres Homes Juneteenth ...
Sylvester Turner, a University of Houston alumnus and former mayor of Houston who was elected to Congress last year, died Tuesday night. He was 70 years old.
Congressman and former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has died at the age of 70. Here's how leaders in Houston, Texas and across the U.S. are remembering him.
"Sylvester Turner was the proud son of Acres Home and graduated from Klein High School, the University of Houston, and Harvard Law. He rose from humble beginnings to meet with presidents, ...
HOUSTON — Houstonians gathered Saturday to bid a final farewell to Sylvester Turner, the beloved former mayor and congressman whose leadership and unwavering dedication shaped the city for decades.
Turner, who served two terms as Houston's mayor, died March 5 just two months after stepping into the job held for nearly 30 years by U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. She died in July from pancreatic ...
Session after session, then-state Rep. Sylvester Turner introduced legislation to force Texas lawmakers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars collected from utility ratepayers for the money's ...
Jones, a Democrat elected to the Texas House in 2022 and previously served on the Houston City Council, joins a slate of ...
Rep.-elect Sylvester Turner (D-TX) comes to the Capitol with 35 years worth of political experience and as a survivor of cancer, a disease that took the life of his predecessor Rep. Sheila Jackson ...