Maryland MD-07 House2022

Kweisi Mfume

First Elected: 1986

Last General Election: 71.6%

Last Primary Election: 74.3%

Full Bio:
MFUME, Kweisi, a Representative from Maryland; born Frizzell Gray in Baltimore, Md., October 24, 1948; attended public schools; B.S., Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md., 1976; M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 1984; assistant professor, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md.; program director for a radio station; member, Baltimore, Md., city council, 1979-1986; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundredth Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on February 15, 1996 (January 3, 1987-February 15, 1996); chief executive officer, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1996-2004; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Elijah Eugene Cummings, and reelected to the succeeding Congress (April 28, 2020-present).

Source: Bioguide