Former U.S. Rep. Bill Gray Has Died At 71
Source: CBS Philly
By: Dan Wing
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A former Philadelphia Congressman and Preacher loved and respected by many around the world has died. Bill Gray passed from natural causes at the age of 71.
Gray was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for 23 years, serving from 1978 to 1991. In that time he became the first African American to achieve chairmanship of the House Budget Committee. But Mayor Michael Nutter says there was much more to Bill Gray than just politics.
After ending his service as a Congressman, Gray went on to lead the United Negro College Fund from 1991 to 2004, helping the organization to new heights according to U.S. Congressman Chaka Fattah.
“As the leader of UNCF where he raised more money in one year than they had raised in the six decades prior to, when he got Bill Gates to write a $1 billion check to send young people to college,” said Fattah.
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He was my Congressman back then (and was replaced by Chakah Fattah).
R.I.P. and condolences to his family.
