NEW YORK — Charles Rangel, dean of New York’s Congressional delegation and the first African American to chair the House Ways and Means Committee, died Monday in a New York hospital. He was 94.
The City College of New York, where Rangel was statesman-in-residence, made the announcement on Memorial Day. A cause of death wasn’t given.
Rangel was born in New York on June 11, 1930. His father left the family when Rangel was just 6, and among his mother’s jobs were cleaning and factory work…