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.