Charles Rangel, former Harlem Congressmen, Dismises of 94 Representative home star-news.press/wp

Former American Congressmen Charles Rangel from New York, Objectable, Pebble Harlem Democat who spent almost five decades on Capitol Hill and was the founding member of the Black Rauce Capture, on Monday at the age of 94.

His family confirmed death in the statement brought by the Faculty of Michelle Stent spokesman. He died at the hospital in New York, said Stent.

The Korean War veteran, Rangel in 1970. won the legendary Harlem politician Adam Clayton Powell 1970. years to start his congress career. During the next 40-plus years, he became a legend – Dean for the New York delegation, and in 2007, the first African American for the Chairman of the Powerful Roads and the Committee.

He stepped back from that board in the middle of the Ethics, and took the house in 2010. After the Committee on Ethics of the House, he had heard a 13-point-consistency of issues in relation to the issues of financial services and the use of congress resources. He was sentenced to a congress of 11 violations, but he continued to serve in the house until the pension in 2017. years.

Rangel was the last surviving a member of a band of four, black political figures in New York, a great government in New York and state politics. The others were David Dinkins, the first mayor of New York City; Percy Sutton, who was the president of the Manhattan town; and Bosiljak Paterson, Deputy Mayor and Secretary of State of New York.

Rangel’s characteristic pebble voice and artificial sense of humor made him an unforgettable character not only in politics, but in the rest of his life and the environment.

The leader of the minority of the Senate, Chuck Schumer, paid tribute to X, calling the rangelle “a great man, a great friend and someone who never stopped fighting for yours and the best.”

“The list of his achievements could take a page, but he leaves the world a much better place than he found it,” Schumer posted.

The leader of the minority of the house, Hakeem Jeffries and praised the Rangel.

“Charlie Rangel was a phenomenal patriot, hero, statesman, leader, traineplazer, changing agent and justice champs, “he published on X.

Jeffries, colleague New Yorker, called Rangel “Lion Lenox Ave”, Icon Street in Harlem, and said that the transformational strength of nature was.

“Harlem, NYC and America today are better because of his service. Let him rest in power forever,” Jeffries were published.

Rangel was known for fierce careful attention to his voters, by sponsoring empowering zones with tax loans for companies moving to economically depressed areas and domestic residence developers.

“I’ve always been dedicated to the fight for a small guy,” Rangel said in 2012. Years.

He was known as one of the most liberal representatives in the house, the loudest contrary to the Iraqi war, which branded “death tax” on poor people and minorities. In 2004. he tried to finish the war by offering the bill to restart the draft military service. Republicans called his bluff and brought an account to the vote. Even Rangel voted against it.

A year later, Rangel’s struggle due to the war became bitterly personal with the US Vice President, Dick Cheney, Republican President George W Bush’s Running and Jastreb.

Rangel said Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, could be too ill to do his job.

“I would like to believe he is sick, not just mean and evil,” Rangel said. After several such verbal jabs, Cheney hit her, saying Rangel “lost”.

Harlem representative entered the house in 1971. years. 1987. The Congress was approved by what was known as “Rangel Amendment”, who denied our foreign tax loans to American companies in which they invested in the apartment in South Africa, where the ruling white minority held a strong oppression of the black majority.

Rangel was born on 11. June 1930. years. During the Korean War he earned a purple heart and bronze star.

He allocated high school abandonment, went to the Faculty on GI account, receiving diplomas from the New York University and the University of St. John’s Rights.

Associated Press contributed to the reporting