He suffered complications from covid-19. He was the first African-American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before becoming head of American diplomacy.
Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State during the term of Republican George W. Bush, has died at age 84 from “complications from covid-19,” his family announced Monday.
Powell was the first African-American American Secretary of State. Military, he became a general of the Army, with the rank of General of Four Stars. A New Yorker by birth, before heading the State Department he served as Chairman of the Army’s Joint Chiefs of Staff between 1989 and 1993, during the administrations of George HW Bush and Bill Clinton.
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