Colin Powell died of complications of Covid-19, his family said in a statement. According to reports, he had been fully vaccinated and was treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He was 84.
“General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19,” the Powell family wrote on Facebook. “We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Former Secretary Of State And National Security Adviser Colin Powell Dies From COVID-19 Complications
Powell served as former President George W. Bush’s first secretary of state. Bush said in a statement Monday that Powell was “a great public servant” who was “such a favorite of Presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom — twice. He was highly respected at home and abroad. And most important, Colin was a family man and a friend.”
Powell was born in 1937 in Harlem, N.Y. to Jamaican parents. He attended City College in New York, where he began his military service by joining the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Following his graduation in 1958, Powell was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
He first joined the Reagan administration in 1987 as national security adviser, becoming the first Black individual to serve in the role. It has also been noted that Powell, a life-long Republican, endorsed Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election.
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