Charlie Wilson, former congressman of Texas dies at age 76. Wilson died at Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin after he started having difficulty breathing while attending a meeting in the eastern Texas town where he lived. Wilson was pronounced dead on arrival, and the preliminary cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest.
In 2007, Wilson had a heart transplant at a Houston hospital. Doctors at the time told Wilson, who suffered from cardiomyopathy, a disease that cause an enlarged and weakened heart, that he would likely die without a transplant. RIP congressman Wilson.
