AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Angela Chao, a shipping industry CEO and sister-in-law to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has died in a car accident, her family says.
Chao, 50, died Sunday in Texas, according to a family statement that did not provide any additional details about what happened.
Chao was the chair and CEO of her family's shipping business, the Foremost Group, and the president of her father's philanthropic organization, the Foremost Foundation.
Chao was the youngest of six sisters to immigrant parents who moved to the U.S. from China in the late 1950s.
“Angela’s name in Chinese sounds like the characters for peace and prosperity," her father, James S.C. Chao, said in the family statement.
Persons:
— Angela Chao, Mitch McConnell, Chao, Elaine Chao, Donald Trump, George W, Bush, “, James S.C, Michael Lee
Organizations:
Foremost
Locations:
AUSTIN, Texas, Blanco, Austin, Blanco County, China