Major Owens

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Major Owens

Major Robert Odell Owens (born June 28, 1936 in Collierville , Tennessee , † October 21, 2013 ) was an American politician . Between 1983 and 2007 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Major Owens is the father of actor Geoffrey Owens .

Career

Major Robert Odell Owens was born in Collierville about three years before the outbreak of World War II . He graduated from Hamilton High School in Memphis . He then went to Morehouse College in Atlanta ( Georgia ), which he left again in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts . He made his Master of Science degree from Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University ) in 1957 . He presided over the Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality . In 1964 he served as Vice President of the Metropolitan Council of Housing and between 1964 and 1966 as Community Coordinator of the Brooklyn Public Library . He then worked between 1966 and 1968 as an executive director at Brownsville Community Council . Between 1968 and 1973 he was a commissioner in the Community Development Agency in New York City . In 1972 he served in the International Commission on Ways of Implementing Social Policy for Ensure Maximum Public Participation and Social Justice for Minorities in The Hague ( Netherlands ). In 1973 he took up the post as director of the Community Media Library Program at Columbia University - a position he held until 1975. Between 1974 and 1982 he was a member of the New York Senate . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the 1982 congressional election for the 99th Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Shirley Chisholm on January 4, 1983 . He was re-elected four times in a row. In 1992 he ran for the 103rd Congress in the eleventh constituency of New York . After a successful election, he succeeded Ed Towns on January 4, 1993 . He was re-elected six times in a row. Since he on a run again in 2006 renounced, he left the after January 3, 2007 Congress of.

He died of heart failure on October 21, 2013 at the age of 77 .

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  1. ↑ Former Brooklyn Congressman Major Owens dies aged 77
personal data
SURNAME Owens, major
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Owens, Major Robert Odell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Collierville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH 21st October 2013