Former Mayor in Washington DC, “Marion S. Barry” who served four times
as a Mayor and won the re-election after drug arrest, has died on Sunday
morning. He died at the age of 78.
Mr. Barry had admitted himself at
Howard University Hospital because he was not feeling well, but on Saturday he
released and admitted at United Medical Center in Southeast Washington where he
died on early Sunday.
The cause of death did not reveal
while he had suffered from many health diseases in recent years such as kidney
problem from diabetes and a high blood pressure. He had done a kidney
transplant in 2009.
He was elected mayor four times in
1978, 1982, 1986 and 1994 and left the mayor office in 1999. By his passion of politics
again he elected to the District of Columbia Council from a hard-pressed
section in Southeast Washington in 2004 as he served until his death.
He was arrested in 1990 during
his third mayor time period, the videotape released by FBI in a sting operation
in which he was using the smoking crack cocaine with a female friend. This operation led to Barry a six month
prison sentence.
"He came to Washington as a
champion of the downtrodden and the dispossessed and rose to the pinnacle of
power and prestige," the newspaper wrote.
Marion Barry was born on March 6,
1936, in Itta Bena, Miss and he died just a few months after the publication of
his autobiography, “Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr.”
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