Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Colin Powell died of complications from COVID-19, his family said Monday in a statement on Facebook. He was 84.
Powell was the first Black U.S. Secretary of State.
Powell was fully vaccinated and died due to COVID compilation, the Powel family said in a statement.
“We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment,” said the statement.
He received treatment at Walter Reed National Medical Center.
“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,” the family said in the statement. “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.”
Powell also served as national security adviser for former President Ronald Reagan from 1987 to 1989, becoming the first Black person to do so. Former President George H.W. Bush picked him to be what was at the time the youngest and the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Despite his political affiliation as a Republican, Powell played a critical role in helping get Democrats elected to the White House. He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008.
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