First black US Secretary of State, Colin Powell dies of COVID-19
Tobi Adebayo
A former United States Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell has died from COVID-19 complications.
His family announced his death on Monday via his verified Facebook page.
According to the statement, 84-year-old Powell was fully vaccinated.
“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. 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, the statement read.
Colin Powell was a politician, diplomat and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American Secretary of State.
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Prior to the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008, he and his successor, Condoleezza Rice, were the highest-ranking African Americans in the history of the federal executive branch (by virtue of the Secretary of State standing fourth in the presidential line of succession).
He served as the 16th United States National Security Advisor from 1987 to 1989 and as the 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.
