Colin Powell, former general and secretary of state, dead at 84NY Post, Oct 18, 2021
Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell died Monday as a result of complications from COVID-19, his family said.
The 84-year-old former military leader, whose 2003 United Nations speech paved the way for the Iraq war, was fully vaccinated against the virus.
“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. He was fully vaccinated,” his family said in a statement on Facebook.
“We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
It wasn’t immediately what complications he suffered or how long Powell had been in the hospital prior to his death.
He is survived by his wife of nearly 60 years, Alma Powell, and their three children.
In his four decades of public life, Powell was the first black man to serve as national security adviser near the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
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