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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkRANGEL, Charles B.
(1930—)
RANGEL, Charles B., a Representative from New York; born in New York, N.Y., June 11, 1930; attended DeWitt Clinton High School; B.S., New York University School of Commerce, Washington Square, N.Y., 1957; LL.B. (J.D.), St. John’s Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1960; United States Army, 1948-1952; lawyer, private practice; assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1963; counsel to speaker of the New York state assembly, 1965; counsel to the President’s Commission to Revise the Draft Laws, 1966; secretary, New York State Penal Law and Code Revision Commission; member of the New York state assembly, 1966-1970; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the eighteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1971-present); chairman, Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control (Ninety-eighth through One Hundred Third Congresses); chair, Committee on Ways and Means (One Hundred Tenth Congress).
”Charles Bernard Rangel” in Black Americans in Congress, 1870-1989
. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
Rangel, Charles B. “The Caribbean and Our Drug War.” TransAfrica Forum
7 (Summer 1990): 39-43.
———. “Charitable Giving and the Gross National Product.” Black Scholar
7 (March 1976): 2-4.
———. “The Golden Triangle.” Journal of Defense and Diplomacy
5 (1987): 44-49.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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