June 20, 2025      11:16 PM

Former Congressman Blake Farenthold passed away

He was 63

KRIS TV in Corpus has the story:

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coastal Bend community is mourning the death of former U.S. Representative for Texas’s 27th congressional district, Blake Farenthold. According to Nueces County Commissioner Mike Pusley and two other sources who confirmed the news, Farenthold died on Friday, June 20.

Farenthold was elected to Congress in November 2010, winning the seat previously held by long-time Democratic congressman Solomon Ortiz.

"At the end of the campaign, many across the country called his win the biggest upset in the nation," said political consultant Steve Ray. Ray shared some of Farenthold's political and personal history with KRIS 6 News. Blake's step-grandmother, democrat Francis Sissy Farenthold, endorsed her far more conservative grandson for the position.

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