The Detroit Democrat, who served from 1965 until a sexual harassment scandal led to his resignation in 2017, was 90 years old.
Former Rep. John Conyers, the longest-serving African-American congressman in American history, died Sunday.
The Detroit Democrat, who served from 1965 until a sexual harassment scandal led to his resignation, was 90.
“Former Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan has died at 90,” the journalist Yamiche Alcindor tweeted Sunday afternoon. “I just spoke with his son, John Conyers III who told me his father passed away in his sleep. Rep. Conyers represented the Detroit area for more than five decades before resigning in 2017.”
The Associated Press, citing the Detroit Police Department, reported that Conyers died at his home of what “looks like natural causes.”
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Former Detroit Rep. John Conyers, longest-serving black congressman and co-founder of Black Caucus, has died https://t.co/wZcsXyh6jf
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