May 26 (UPI) -- Former U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York died Monday at age 94 after the Democratic retired from Congress in 2017.
His death was announced by the City College of New York where Rangel was a Statesman-in-Residence and in 2022 launched the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative to boost jobs in the Manhattan and Bronx areas.
The cause of death was not given.
Rangel, a noted Korean War hero and civil rights activist, was born on June 11, 1930, in Harlem and earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star with Valor during military service.
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