Death
Chavez died of a heart attack on November 18, 1962 in Washington D.C., and was buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery in Albuquerque. Congress honored his memory with a minute of silence, and then-Vice-President Lyndon Johnson spoke at his funeral. At the time of his death, he was fourth-ranking in Senate seniority.
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