Colin Powell, Former General and Secretary of State, Dead at 84
Colin Powell, a retired four-star general and White House national security advisor who served as the nation’s first black secretary of state, died Monday as a result of complications from COVID-19, his family said.
The 84-year-old was fully vaccinated against the virus.
In his four decades of public life, Powell was the first black man to serve as national security advisor near the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. In the latter role, he oversaw the US invasion of Panama and later the US invasion of Kuwait to oust the Iraqi army in 1991.
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