Democrats have long outpaced Republicans in deaths in office

Democrats have long outpaced Republicans in deaths in office

It began this year with a Texas Democrat: Sylvester Turner, the former mayor of Houston who had joined the House at the age of 70. He died two months into his freshman term. That was quickly followed by the deaths of two veteran Democrats: Raúl M. Grijalva, 77, of Arizona, who for years held the top slot on the Natural Resources Committee, and then Virginia’s Gerald E. Connolly, 75, who had risen to become ranking member of the Oversight and Gov…