| LC control no. | n 93015154 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Stokes, Louis, 1925-2015 |
| Located | Warrensville Heights (Ohio) |
| Birth date | 19250223 |
| Death date | 20150818 |
| Place of birth | Cleveland (Ohio) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House Democratic Party (U.S.) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Legislators |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Western Reserve Hist. Soc. for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Cleveland Branch. Records, 1924-1967 (Louis Stokes) Bio. dir. U.S. Congress, 1774-1989 (Stokes, Louis, Representative from Ohio; b. Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 23, 1925; lawyer; resident of Warrensville Heights, Ohio) New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 20, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 19: Louis Stokes; b. Feb. 23, 1925, Cleveland; d. Tuesday [Aug. 18, 2015], at his home in a Cleveland suburb, aged 90; as the first African-American congressman from Ohio, helped focus federal attention on the nation's poor and led a special House investigation into the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Democrat; served in the House for 30 years starting in 1969, representing Ohio's 21st Congressional District) |
| Associated language | eng |
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