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KWEISI MFUME (Democrat) U.S. Representative, 7th Congressional District (parts of Baltimore City, & Baltimore & Howard counties), Maryland


Member of U.S. House of Representatives, since May 5, 2020. Member, House Committee on Oversight & Reform, 2020-; House Committee on Small Business, 2020-. Member, Congressional Black Caucus, 2020-.

Chair, Board of Regents, Morgan State University, 2012- (member, 2001-07).

U.S. Representative from Maryland (Democrat), 7th Congressional District, January 3, 1987 to February 15, 1996. Resigned February 15, 1996. Member, Banking and Financial Services Committee, General Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee; Committee on Education; Small Business Committee; Ethics Committee; Joint Economic Committee (chair). Member, Congressional Black Caucus (past chair & vice-chair; chair, task force on affirmative action); House Democratic Caucus (vice-chair, communications).

Member, City Council, Baltimore City, 1979-86 (chair, committee on health policy).

Born Frizzell Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, October 24, 1948. Attended Baltimore City public schools; Morgan State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1976; The Johns Hopkins University, M.A. (international studies), 1984. Managing Director and Principal Investigator, Health Policy Research Consortium, a division of CTIS, Inc.. Vice-Chair, Board of Research America. President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),1996-2004. Former Executive Director, National Medical Association. Assistant professor, Morgan State University. Program director for a radio station. Honorary co-chair, Task Force to End Smoking in Maryland, 1999. Past member, Board of Visitors, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. Member, Advisory Board, Schomburg Commission for the Preservation of Black Culture; Senior Advisory Committee, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Board of Trustees, The Johns Hopkins University Meyerhoff National Advisory Board of the University of Maryland; People for the American Way. Member, Gamma Boule Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity; Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; Most Worshipful Prince Hall Masons; Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Alumnus of the Year Award, Morgan State University, 2013. Married; six sons.

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