North Dakota’s attorney general died suddenly on Jan. 28. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, a Republican, “passed away unexpectedly” at age 68, his office said in a statement. Reached on Saturday, a spokeswoman said the office had no further information to share at this time. “We know Wayne was a widely respected and well-known public figure, but we ask that his family be allowed time to grieve in private,” the office said. The brother of Stenehjem, who had been in office since 2000, told KFYR that the attorney general fell on Friday morning and was rushed to a hospital in an ambulance. Allan Stenehjem, the brother, said his sibling had an ulcer. Inflammation from the ulcer may have caused the fall, Allan Stenehjem said. Allan Stenehjem told the Bismarck Tribune that his brother didn’t have any serious health issues and that the death wasn’t related to COVID-19. The attorney general in …