Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner announced on Monday that his 36-year-old daughter Madison died after a long struggle with juvenile diabetes and other health issues. Madison Warner died after a decades-long battle with juvenile diabetes and other health issues. Madison Warner graduated from Brown University in 2012.
Mark Warner and his wife Lisa Collis have two other daughters, Gillian and Eliza. Mark Warner was first elected to the Senate in 2008 and has been reelected twice since then, in 2014 and 2020. He is up for reelection later this year.
Mark Warner served as Virginia's governor from 2002 to 2006. Type 1 diabetes is an incurable genetic condition, although experimental therapies are in development for the disease. 8 million adults aged 20 or older and 314,000 children and adolescents under 20.