Congressional Directory for the 109th Congress (2005-2006), September 2006.
[Pages 184-185]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    MAJOR R. OWENS, Democrat, of Brooklyn, NY; born in Memphis, TN, June 
28, 1936; education: attended Hamilton High School, Memphis, TN; B.A., 
with high honors Morehouse College, 1956; M.S., Atlanta University, 
1957; chairman, Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality; vice president, 
Metropolitan Council of Housing, 1964; community coordinator, Brooklyn 
Public Library, 1965; executive director, Brownsville Community Council, 
1966; commissioner, New York City Community Development Agency, 1968-73; 
director, community media library program at Columbia University, 1974; 
New York State Senate, 1974-82; chairman, Senate Democratic Operations 
Committee; Brooklyn borough president declared September 10, 1971, 
``Major R. Owens Day''; served on International Commission on Ways of 
Implementing Social Policy to Ensure Maximum Public Participation and 
Social Justice for Minorities at The Hague,

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the Netherlands, 1972; published author and lecturer on library science; 
featured speaker, White House Conference on Libraries, 1979; recognized 
authority in community development; married: Maria A. Owens of New York 
City; the children of their blended family are Christopher, Geoffrey, 
Millard, Carlos, and Cecelia; appointed chairman of the House 
Subcommittee on Select Education and Civil Rights, 1987; chairman of the 
Congressional Black Caucus Budget Task Force; appointed chairman of the 
Congressional Black Caucus Education Braintrust from the 98th Congress 
to the present; committees: Education and the Workforce; Government 
Reform; elected to the 98th Congress, November 2, 1982; reelected to 
each succeeding Congress.


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