Former New York Representative Charles Rangel, founding member of Caucus Negro Congress who spent more than four decades in the Chamber, has died, according to Wabc. He was 94 years old.
Rangel, a Democrat, served in the Chamber from 1971 to 2017, spending part of his mandate as president of the House Media and Media Committee. After leaving Congress, Rangel served as a residence statesman at the City College of New York, Your website said.
“Rangel was a war hero, history congressman and legislator,” the university wrote in an Obit for Rangel, and then added that he was “recognized as one of the most worker legislators in Congress.”
Charles Rangel attends Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney Reaeriser at the Princeton Club of New York, April 24, 2017, in New York.
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The leader of the minority of the House of Representatives and his New York team Publish in x.
“Representative Charlie Rangel was a phenomenal patriot, hero, statesman, leader, pioneer, change agent & Champion for Justice. The Lenox Ave lion was a transforming force of nature. Harlem, NYC & America is better today due to your service. That forever would rest in power, “Jeffries published in X.
The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer, published in X that Rangel “was a great man, a great friend and someone who never stopped fighting for his voters and the best of the United States.”
“The list of his achievements could take pages, but he leaves the world a much better place than he found,” said Schumer.
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