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[photo, Kweisi Mfume, U.S. Representative, Maryland] KWEISI MFUME (Democrat) U.S. Representative, 7th Congressional District (parts of Baltimore City & Baltimore County), Maryland


Member of U.S. House of Representatives, since May 5, 2020. Vice-Chair, House Committee on Small Business, 2021- (chair, contracting & infrastructure subcommittee, 2021-). Member, House Committee on Oversight & Reform, 2020-. Member, Education and Labor Committee, 2020-22. Member, Congressional Black Caucus, 2020-; Congressional Bipartisan Historically Black Colleges and Universities Caucus, 2020-; Congressional Caribbean Caucus, 2020-; Congressional Progressive Caucus, 2020-; Congressional Ukraine Caucus, 2022-.

Chair, Board of Regents, Morgan State University, 2012- (member, 2001-07). Member, Commission on African American History and Culture, 2018-23.

Member of U.S. House of Representative (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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