Ron Wright Cause of Death

Ron Wright announced that he had been diagnosed with Lung Cancer in July 2019. The next year, a series of complications with his radiation treatment led to his hospitalization.

Wright also announced on January 21, 2021, Wright announced he had tested positive for COVID-19. After he and his wife were hospitalised in Dallas for two weeks, Wright died from the virus on February 7.

Wright became the first sitting member of Congress to die from the disease.

Ron Wrights served as the US representative for Texas’s 6th congressional district from 2019 until he died in 2021.

After serving on Arlington’s city council and as tax assessor-collector for Tarrant County, Wright was elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 and reelected in 2020. Before his death, he had been diagnosed with lung cancer in 2019.