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Colin Powell Cause Of Death Revealed

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Colin Luther Powell, born April 5, 1937, was a politician, diplomat, and four-star military who served as the 65th Secretary of State of the United States from 2001 to 2005. He was the United States’ first African-American Secretary of State.

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Prior to his election as president in 2008, Barack Obama and his successor, Condoleezza Rice, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the federal executive branch’s history (by virtue of the Secretary of State standing fourth in the presidential line of succession).

From 1987 to 1989, he was the 16th United States National Security Advisor, and from 1989 to 1993, he was the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Colin Luther Powell was born in Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on Monday, April 5, 1937, to Jamaican immigrants Maud Ariel and Luther Powell. Both of his parents were of mixed African and Scottish heritage.

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Luther was a shipping clerk, while Maud worked as a seamstress. Powell was up in the South Bronx and attended the now-defunct Morris High School, where he graduated in 1954.

Colin Powell Cause of death?

Powell died on October 18, 2021, at the age of 84, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center from COVID-19 complications. He was completely immunized. He was also suffering from multiple myeloma.


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