{"id":37971,"date":"2019-10-17T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T15:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37971"},"modified":"2019-10-17T13:43:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:43:51","slug":"his-parents-named-him-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/17\/his-parents-named-him-well\/","title":{"rendered":"His Parents Named Him Well"},"content":{"rendered":"

My God is the Lord.\u00a0 That’s the meaning of the name Elijah, and his parents named Elijah Cummings well.\u00a0 Throughout his too-short life, he dedicated himself tirelessly to his faith, to his nation, to his community, and to anyone he could help in any way.\u00a0 His passing leaves a terrible void in the fabric of our nation, and except for the Republican Reich, we shall miss him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national attention for his principled stands on politically charged issues in the House, his calming effect on anti-police riots in Baltimore, and his forceful opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump, died Oct. 17 at a hospice center in Baltimore. He was 68.<\/p>\n

The cause was \u201ccomplications concerning long-standing health challenges<\/strong>,\u201d his office said in a statement. Mr. Cummings was chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and a leading figure in the Trump impeachment inquiry and had been out of his office this week while recovering from an unspecified medical procedure.<\/p>\n

Born to a family of Southern sharecroppers and Baptist preachers, Mr. Cummings grew up in the racially fractured Baltimore of the 1950s and 1960s. At 11, he helped integrate a local swimming pool while being attacked with bottles and rocks<\/strong>. \u201cPerry Mason,\u201d the popular TV series about a fictional defense lawyer, inspired him to enter the legal profession.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany young men in my neighborhood were going to reform school,\u201d he told the East Texas Review. \u201cThough I didn\u2019t completely know what reform school was, I knew that Perry Mason won a lot of cases. I also thought that these young men probably needed lawyers<\/strong>.\u201d…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I shared just a peek at Cumming’s early life.\u00a0 Click through for an extensive review of his heroic life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what I saw on TV, in which I first learned of his death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rep. Elijah Cummings dies at the age of 68<\/a><\/p>\n