California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa died suddenly at the age of 65, GOP leadership confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n
LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who had represented the Golden State\u2019s 1st Congressional District since 2013, had chaired the Congressional Western Caucus. His cause of death is not immediately clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cJacquie and I are devastated about the sudden loss of our friend, Congressman Doug LaMalfa,\u201d House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said in a statement.<\/p>\n
GOP Rep. Doug LaMalfa died suddenly at the age of 65. Doug LaMalfa<\/p>\n
\u201cDoug was a loving father and husband, and staunch advocate for his constituents and rural America. Our prayers are with Doug\u2019s wife, Jill, and their children.<\/p>\n
Rep. Doug LaMalfa is seen riding in car during a parade in an undated photo. Doug LaMalfa \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
LaMalfa\u2019s passing now brings the GOP\u2019s threadbare majority even slimmer after the retirement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).<\/p>\n
Rep. Doug LaMalfa represented a district in California. Doug LaMalfa \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
Rep. Doug LaMalfa with Trump in an undated photo. Doug LaMalfa \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply stunned and incredibly saddened by the news of my friend Congressman Doug LaMalfa\u2019s passing,\u201d added Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa died suddenly at the age of 65, GOP leadership confirmed Tuesday. LaMalfa (R-Calif.),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,339,13,1748,10104,3586],"class_list":["post-122198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-death","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-us-house-of-representatives","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}