The incredible life of Elijah Cummings: How a sharecropper's son rose to become one of the fiercest Democrats who took on Trump

12:07pm PDT - October 17th, 2019    elijah cummings - Business Insider

Elijah Cummings was born in 1951 and died in 2019, at age 68. After working as a lawyer, he rose through the political ranks in Maryland, first serving as a state delegate for 14 years, and then representing Maryland's 7th Congressional District for the last …