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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkAdam Clayton POWELL, Jr.
(1908-1972)
POWELL, Adam Clayton, Jr.,
a Representative from New York; born in New Haven, Conn., November
29, 1908; attended the public schools of New York City; graduated
from Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1930; graduated from
Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1932; graduated from Shaw
University, Raleigh, N.C., 1934; ordained minister; member of the
New York, N.Y., city council, 1941; newspaper publisher and editor;
journalist; instructor, Columbia University Extension School,
1932-1940; cofounder of the National Negro Congress; member of the
New York state, Consumer Division, Office of Price Administration,
1942-1944; member of the Manhattan Civilian Defense 1942-1945;
elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-ninth and to the eleven
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1945-February 28, 1967); excluded
from membership in the Ninetieth Congress pursuant to H.Res. 278,
on February 28, 1967; chairman, Committee on Education and Labor
(Eighty-seventh through Eighty-ninth Congresses); elected as a
Democrat to the Ninetieth Congress, by special election, to fill
the vacancy caused by his exclusion but did not appear to be sworn
in; reelected to the succeeding Congress (April 11, 1967-January 3,
1971); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Ninety-second
Congress in 1970; died on April 4, 1972, in Miami, Fla.; cremated
and ashes scattered over South Bimini in the Bahamas.
Bibliography
Hamilton, Charles V. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political
Biography of An American Dilemma. New York: Atheneum, 1991;
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. Adam by Adam: The Autobiography of
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: With a Foreword by Adam Clayton
Powell, III. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1994.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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