Kweisi Mfume
Kweisi Mfume is the former PresidentCEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People , as well as a fiveterm Democratic Congressman from Marylands 7th congressional district, serving in the 100th through 104th Congress. On September 12, 2006, he lost a primary campaign for the United States Senate seat that was being vacated by Maryland U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes.
Mfume was born Frizzell Gerald Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, October 24, 1948, the eldest of four. His father, a truck driver, abandoned his family in Grays youth. Upon the death of his mother, Mfume dropped out of high school at sixteen to begin working as many as three jobs at a time to support his three sisters. He also began hanging around street corners, sometimes with the wrong friends. In his biography, he reports that he was locked up a couple of times on suspicion of theft because happened to be black and happened to be young. Speculation as to the degree of his entanglement with the law has varied, especially as he later came into prominence. He became father to five children with several different women during his difficult teenage years, whom he actively supports to this day. He has since adopted one child as well.
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