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WASHINGTON — Representative Jackie Walorski, Republican of Indiana, was killed in a car accident in her district on Wednesday, her office said. He was 58.
Mrs. Walorski’s husband, Dean Swihart, was notified of her death by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office, the office said in a statement. “She has returned home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” the statement said. “Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers.”
Ms. Walorski was traveling with two assistants who were also killed in the crash when a passenger car and an SUV collided head-on: Zachery Potts, 27, her regional manager, and Emma Thomson, 28, her director of communications, according to the Elkhart County Sheriff.
The House is in its summer recess, a time when lawmakers often return to their districts to meet with constituents.
“Jackie has been a key member of our convention, serving as a member of my alternate whip team for several years,” Representative Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, said in a statement. “Jackie and her staff died serving her constituents. They will be missed and our nation will miss their service.”
First elected to Congress in 2012, Ms. Walorski served on the House Ways and Means Committee and as the top Republican on the House Ethics Committee.
Before being elected to Congress, she served three terms in the Indiana State House, spent four years as a missionary in Romania and worked as a television reporter in South Bend, Ind.
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