Adam Clayton Powell #1168
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“ Keep the Faith, Baby!”
Adam Clayton Powell 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); excludefrom 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.
