Overview

• The City College of New York announced his death on May 26, marking the end of his service as Statesman-in-Residence since his 2017 retirement
• Rangel earned a Purple Heart and Bronze Star for his valor as a Korean War artillery specialist from 1948 to 1952
• He served 23 terms in the U.S. House from 1971 to 2017, co-founding the Congressional Black Caucus and becoming the last surviving member of Harlem’s “Gang of Four”
• In 2007, he broke barriers as the first African American chair of the House Ways and Means Committee and sponsored landmark measures including the anti-apartheid “Rangel Amendment”
• New York leaders such as Mayor Eric Adams and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer honored his decades of advocacy with flags lowered at half-staff