From Janitor to Longest-Serving African-American Congressional Staffer
Bertie Bowman, the longest-serving African-American staffer on Capitol Hill in history, died at 92 years old on Wednesday morning. Andrew Desiderio, a reporter for Punchbowl News, first reported that Bowman's death was announced by Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the committee confirmed the