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Colin Luther Powell (/ ˈ k oʊ l ɪ n ˈ p aʊ ə l / KOH-lin POW-əl; [a] April 5, 1937 – () October 18, 2021) was an American statesman, [3] diplomat, and army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005.
On January 20, 2001, Colin Powell assumed the post of Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, which made him the highest-ranked black Jamaican-American among cabinet secretaries to enter the presidential line of succession, standing fourth. [6]
Powell, who served as the first Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also became the first Black U.S. Secretary of State.
Alma Vivian Powell (née Johnson; October 27, 1937 – July 28, 2024) was an American audiologist and the wife of military and political figure Colin Powell, [1] to whom she was married from August 25, 1962 until his death in 2021.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Colin Powell, a former U.S. secretary of state and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, 84, died of complications from COVID-19 on Monday, according to his Facebook page.
Colin Powell Sipa/Shutterstock Remembering a hero. Colin Powell, best known for being a military leader and the first Black secretary of state, died at age 84. “General Colin L. Powell, former U ...
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Colin L. Powell, the trailblazing soldier-diplomat who rose from humble beginnings to become the first Black secretary of state, was The post Colin Powell remembered as a model for future ...