Mitchell, First Black Congressman From Maryland, Dies at 85

By Bryce Bauer
Roll Call Staff
May 29, 2007, 3:37 p.m.

Former Rep. Parren Mitchell (D), the first black elected to Congress from Maryland, died at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center on Monday night at the age of 85. No cause of death was listed, at Mitchell’s request, according to the Congressman’s nephew, Michael Mitchell.



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