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   Charles Rangel began his legislative career when elected to the New York State Assembly for two consecutive terms, 1966-1970, as the representative of the Central Harlem community. 
   In November, 1970, Congressman Charles B. Rangel was first elected to the House of Representatives. He has been re-elected four times, and in the 96th Congress is serving his fifth term as the representative of the 19th Congressional District in New York. 
   In his first Congressional Term, Congressman Rangel was appointed by the Speaker to the Select Committee on Crime, which was created by Congressional leadership to investigate the alarming increase in crime in the nation. During his service on this committee, Congressman Rangel worked to focus Congressional attention on the influence of the illegal traffic of narcotics upon crime. He has continued to work on the narcotics problem throughout his congressional career and is regarded as one of the leading congressional experts on this subject. In 1976 he was appointed to the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
   Representative Rangel was a member of the historic Judiciary Committee, which voted articles of impeachment against former President Richard M. Nixon. He left the Judiciary Committee in 1975 at the beginning of the 94th Congress when his colleagues in the House voted him to serve on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, where he is now Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, and ranking member of the Subcommittee on Public Assistance. At the start of the 96th Congress, the Speaker of the House appointed Congressman Rangel to the influential Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, which is charge with the responsibility of making and implementing legislative policy and selecting candidates to fill Committee vacancies. He was appointed by the Speaker as one of the two congressional representatives to the National Commission on the International Year of the Child. 
   In 1974-75, the Congressman served as Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. In January 1977, his colleagues on the New York Congressional delegation voted him the Majority Whip for New York State.
   Charles B. Rangel was born and lives in the Harlem community with his wife and two children. 

[image 1]: On reviewing stand with the recently deceased Adam Powell is the late Whitney M. Young.

[image 2]: The man who succeeded Adam