Colin Powell, the first black US Secretary of State and top Army officer, died Monday at the age of 84 from complications from COVID-19, his family said in a statement.
“He was fully vaccinated. We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their thoughtful treatment. We have lost a husband, father, grandfather and an extraordinary and loving great American”His family said in a post on Facebook.
As a four-star general, he was chairman of the Army Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George HW Bush during the 1991 Gulf War, in which US-led forces drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait.
Powell, a moderate and pragmatic Republican, later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush.
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