Charles Rangel, former longtime N.Y. congressman who represented Harlem, dies at 94
By HatetheSwamp May 27, 2025 6:20 am Category: Politics
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We lived near NYC when he was at the height of his power. He was in our news daily.
Rangel was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and became the first Black chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Politicians and supporters remembered Rangel, known as Charlie, for his years in public service and deep roots in New York City. He was born in Harlem and was first elected to Congress in 1970, representing a congressional district that was first drawn up in the 1940s and allowed the neighborhood's majority Black voters to send one of their own to Washington.
Rangel, a veteran of the Korean War, was a high school dropout but eventually went to college on the G.I. Bill, getting degrees from New York University and St. John's University Law School.
Rangel served in Congress until 2017, when he retired. He lamented to The New York Times in 2016, when his eventual successor, Rep. Adriano Espaillat, was poised to become the first Dominican American elected to Congress, that he feared that meant his Harlem district would no longer have a Black representative.
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