{"id":13270,"date":"2012-03-08T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2012-03-08T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T20:53:21","slug":"first-black-congressman-from-new-jersey-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13270","title":{"rendered":"First Black Congressman From New Jersey Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. <strong>Congressman Donald M. Payne<\/strong>, described as a true and dedicated native son of Newark, New Jersey, and the first African-American elected to Congress from that state, has died.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes only weeks after <strong>Payne<\/strong> vowed to continue to represent his constituents and his country during his ongoing battle with colon cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Payne&#8217;s<\/strong> political career was built on step-by-step challenges and on a solid foundation of hard-earned respect in the arena of Newark politics. At the same time, with steady success, he would climb the business ladder in his home state.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually harnessing a combination of the two, <strong>Payne<\/strong> would be elected to the U.S. Congress in 1988 and would rise through the ranks of politics, serving as chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus from 1995 to 1997; one of his many achievements in a distinguished career that spanned decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Payne<\/strong> did much to bring attention and influence to both African American and African affairs on a global scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Congressman Donald M. Payne, described as a true and dedicated native son of Newark, New Jersey, and the first African-American elected to Congress from that state, has died. The news comes only weeks after Payne vowed to continue to represent his constituents and his country during his ongoing battle with colon cancer. Payne&#8217;s political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}