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By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyNEW YORK -- Ever since he defeated the flamboyant, legendary, scandal-scarred and cancer-stricken Adam Clayton Powell Jr. by 150 votes in a 1970 Democratic primary, Charlie Rangel has been the congressman from Harlem. But now the raspy-voiced 80-year-old Rangel -- already stripped of his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee and facing a public airing of the charges against him by the House ethics committee on Thursday -- is the beleaguered incumbent trying to stare down his last hurrah. As Rangel's lawyers attempted to negotiate a settlement with the ethics committee Wednesday ...
Adam Clayton Powell IV Starts Run Against Rangel
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 12) --The son also wants to rise. New York State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, the son of the first African-American to be elected to Congress in the state of New York, said today he intends to challenge Charles Rangel in this year's Democratic primary for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The two men have a history. Rangel's victory over Powell IV's father, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., in the 1970 Democratic primary led to the civil rights icon's subsequent departure from Congress. Seth Wenig, AP New York State Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, center, announces ...
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