Thomas D’Alesandro III, a former mayor of Baltimore and the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, died at the age of 90
Thomas D’Alesandro III, a former mayor of Baltimore and the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, died Sunday at 90.Story Continued Below
Affectionately called “Young Tommy,” D’Alesandro served as Baltimore’s mayor for one term, from 1967 to 1971. He led the city during the April 1968 riots after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination and helped open schools and police headquarters.
D’Alesandro is survived by his wife, Margaret; his children, Thomas, Dominic, Nicholas, Patricia and Gregory; and his grandchildren, “whom he adored,” Pelosi said. His death comes just days after Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, a longtime Maryland lawmaker whom Pelosi
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