Former Rep. Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who helped found the Congressional Black Caucus and went on to a storied four-decade-plus career in the House, died on Monday. He was 94.
The news, announced by his family and subsequently by the City College of New York and media outlets, did not specify a cause of death.
Rangel served 23 terms in Congress, starting in 1971, and was, at the time of his retirement in 2017, the longest-serving member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, the House’s oldest committee, and served as its chairman from 2007 to 2010.
