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Credit: Texas Tribune
State Senator Mario Gallegos passed away Oct. 16 following complications associated with his 2007 liver transplant. A Democrat, Gallegos represented Houston’s Senate District 6 since 1995. Before that he served two terms in the Texas House.
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