Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin dies of COVID-19 complications
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Jan. 2 (UPI) Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin Jr. has died after complications from COVID-19, his office announced. He was 60.
Representatives said he died Friday after undergoing treatment for two weeks at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond.
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said the state lost a strong advocate and a good man with Chafin s death. I knew Ben as a lawmaker, an attorney, a banker, and a farmer raising beef cattle in Moccasin Valley, working the land just as generations of his family had done before him, he said. He loved the outdoors, and he loved serving people even more. He pushed hard to bring jobs and investment to his district, and I will always be grateful for his courageous vote to expand health care for people who need it.
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Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin died at age 60 after becoming infected with COVID-19, the first Virginia lawmaker to die from the contagion.
Chafin, a Republican, had represented part of Southwest Virginia in the state Senate since 2014 and spent a year in the House of Delegates prior to that, according to the
Associated Press.
“State Senator Augustus Benton (Ben) Chafin, Jr., a native son of Russell County located in Southwest Virginia, passed away on January 1, 2021 from Covid-19 complications,” a statement from his office read.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam praised Chafin in a Friday statement.
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The first day of 2021 was a sad day for people living in Virginia as they lost Chafin from COVID-19 complications.
After contracting the virus, the lawmaker has been hospitalized at the VCU Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia, where he was treated and given medical attention, but to no avail. The senator is survived by his wife and three children.
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The deadly COVID-19 continues to claim millions of lives across the country, including prominent persons like Virginia state Sen. Ben Chafin Jr., according to a published article in WRAL.com.
A statement released by his office confirmed the lawmaker s death.