Newly-elected Rep. Jake Ellzey (R-TX) participates in a ceremonial swearing-in with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at the U.S. Capitol on July 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. Ellzey won a special election in Texas’s 6th Congressional district and replaces the late Rep. Ron Wright, who died from Covid-19 in February.
Incumbent Jake Ellzey wins the Republican nomination for U.S. House in Texas' 6th Congressional District.
Ellzey won a special election last summer to represent voters in Ellis County, Navarro County, and part of Tarrant County.
The election was called following the death of Ron Wright who died after a long battle with cancer, and then contracting COVID-19.
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