As the dean of New York’s delegation and the first Black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he was a powerful political force for decades.

Rangel, a Democrat, was a fixture in Congress from 1971 through 2017, and before that a two-term New York state assemblyman. He was the final surviving member of Harlem's "gang of

Charles Rangel, one of the longest-continually-serving congressmen in American history and a Purple Heart Veteran, died on Memorial Day, May 26, at age 94.