Turner served as the 62nd mayor of Houston. He was elected to represent the 18th Congressional District of Texas in 2024, filling a seat formerly left by Sheila Jackson Lee, who died last year.

This story has been updated with more information. Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, a Harvard-trained lawyer whose 36-year political career included being a state legislator representing a ...

Former Houston mayor and current U.S. Congressman Sylvester Turner has died at the age of 70, according to current Houston Mayor John Whitmire. U.S. farmers react to China's retaliatory tariff ...

A spokesperson for Democratic U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner of Texas says he has died just two months after taking office and hours after attending President Donald Trump's address before Congress.