鲍威尔，亚当克莱顿，Jr。

鲍威尔，亚当克莱顿，Jr.，1908-72，美国政治家和牧师，湾康涅狄格州纽黑文。1937年，他成为纽约市的阿比西尼亚浸信会教堂的牧师，他很快被称为激进的黑人领袖。He was elected to the city council of New York in 1941, and was elected for the first time to the U.S. Congress in 1945. Although a Democrat, he campaigned for President Eisenhower in 1956. As chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor after 1960, he acquired a reputation for flamboyance and disregard of convention. In Mar., 1967, he was excluded by the House of Representatives, which had accused him of misuse of House funds, contempt of New York court orders concerning a 1963 libel judgment against him, and conduct unbecoming a member. He was overwhelmingly reelected in a special election in 1967 and again in 1968. He was seated in the 1969 Congress but fined $25,000 and deprived of his seniority. In June, 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that his exclusion from the House had been unconstitutional. Powell was defeated for reelection in 1970.

看他的自传（1971）;A. Jacobs（1973）的研究。

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