Members of the U.S. Congress Who Have Died of Other Than Natural Causes While in Office

Publication Date: March 2002

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Government

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This report provides an alphabetical list of the 60 Members of Congress who have died of other than natural causes while serving in the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate. Each entry includes party affiliation, the name of the state that the Member represented, dates of service, chamber in which the Member served, and cause of death.

The report does not presume to be a complete list of Members who have died from other than natural causes while in office. CRS relied exclusively on available sources, and the report reflects only the extent to which they indicated the cause of a Member's death.