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Elijah Eugene Cummings was an American politician and civil rights advocate who served in the United States House of Representatives for Maryland's 7th congressional district from 1996 until his death in 2019, when he was succeeded by his predecessor Kweisi Mfume. The district he represented included over half of the city of Baltimore, including most of the majority-black precincts of Baltimore County, and most of Howard County, Maryland. A member of the Democratic Party, Cummings previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1983 to 1996.

Cummings served as the chair of the Committee on Oversight and Reform from January 2019 until his death in October of the same year. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. January 1951 – 17. October 2019
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Elijah Cummings Quotes

“When the history books are written about this tumultuous era, I want them to show that I was among those in the House of Representatives who stood up to lawlessness and tyranny.”

Elijah Cummings

Official Twitter account (24 September 2019) https://twitter.com/repcummings/status/1176601699466776578?lang=en

Books , Housing , History

“I’ve often said our children are the living messages we send to a future that we will never see. But now our children are sending us to a future that they will never see. There’s something wrong with this picture.”

Elijah Cummings

Speeech at the funeral of Freddie Gray (April 27, 2015)
Source: [Cobb, Jelani, October 18, 2019, What Elijah Cummings Meant to Baltimore, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-elijah-cummings-meant-to-baltimore, New Yorker, New York, October 20, 2019]

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