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OklahomaGator · May 26, 2025

in Washington.
Lauren Victoria Burke/AP
CNN —

Charles B. Rangel, a civil rights activist, war hero and trailblazing New York congressman whose career saw the high school dropout rise to become one of the most influential Black politicians in modern history, died on Monday. He was 94.

Rangel’s death was announced by the City College of New York, where he served as Statesman-in-Residence and launched the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative to boost infrastructure jobs in areas of Manhattan and the Bronx that he called home for nearly a century.

First elected to Congress in 1970, Rangel would eventually serve 23 terms in the body, where he co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus and became the first Black member and later chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee. He retired in 2017.

He was the last surviving member of the “Gang of Four,” the powerful coalition of Harlem lawmakers whose members also included former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, former New York Secretary of State Basil Paterson and former Manhattan Bureau President Percy Sutton.
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He served 46 years in the House. May he RIP.

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