“He worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity,” Cummings’ wife said in a statement
Elijah Cummings, a towering figure on Capitol Hill who represented his home city of Baltimore in Congress for nearly a quarter century, has died. The Democratic leader, who did not return to Capitol Hill this week following a medical procedure, passed away early Thursday from longstanding health issues, his office
. He was 68. “He worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity and that our nation’s diversity was our promise, not our problem,” his wife, Dr.Cummings, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, was a son of sharecroppers who served as the first African-American Speaker Pro Tempore in the Maryland State House, and became a powerful and unifying voice for social justice, civil rights, and democratic values.
Cummings was mourned by figures in Baltimore, Washington, and beyond as a “giant.” “At a time of chaos and division, our friend Elijah Cummings stood strong as a man of principle, unity, dignity, and compassion,” Maryland SenatorMark Meadows,
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