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By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor Herbert “Bertie” Bowman arrived in Washington, D.C. in 1944. He took a job sweeping the steps at the U.S. Capitol at 13 to become a well-known and very well-regarded staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Bowman died at 81 after heart surgery on October 25. “Bertie Bowman was
In an unlikely success story, he rose from poverty in the segregated South to build relationships with powerful politicians.
Herbert “Bertie” Bowman, the longest-serving African-American congressional staffer in history, has died. He was 92.
Herbert "Bertie" Bowman, a fixture on Capitol Hill for 60 years and the longest-serving Black congressional staffer, died Wednesday.