Colin Powell, former U.S. secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, died early Monday from complications of COVID-19, his family said in a statement. He was 84 years old.
Powell was born in the Harlem section of New York City and served in the military most of his adult life. He served two tours in Vietnam and was wounded in the first, earning a Purple Heart. After the war, he steadily rose through the ranks to lieutenant colonel to brigadier general in 1979.
Under President Ronald Reagan, Powell became national security advisor and in 1989 received his fourth star and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush, and the first 9 months of President Bill Clinton’s first term in office.As President George W. Bush’s secretary of state, Powell infamously offered faulty intelligence to the United Nations as Bush called for war with Iraq.
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