IN MEMORIAM- Bertie Bowman, Longest Serving Black Staffer in Congressional History, Dies at 81

Herbert “Bertie” Bowman arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1944.  He took a job sweeping the steps at the U.S. Capitol at 13 to become a well-known and very well regarded staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.  Bowman died at 81 after heart surgery on October 25.

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