Detroit: Barbara-Rose Collins, who represented Detroit in Congress and served on the city council, had died after contracting Covid-19.
He was 82.
Family Collins confirmed his death on Thursday to News Detroit, the newspaper reported.
Christopher Collins, 51, said his mother died around 2am on Thursday.
He has been vaccinated against Coronavirus, but still fell ill and was hospitalized before his death, he said.
“He underwent his whole life in the same environment, the same house he was born, on the lower east side,” he added.
“That says a lot about someone.” Barbara-Rose Collins, a Democrat, was chosen to the US house in 1990 after eight years in the city council.
He was defeated for the election to Congress in 1996 by Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick.
He was elected to the council in 2001 and served until 2009 when he was not looking for re-election.
In 1974, Collins was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives where he underwent three terms.
“You can enter the floor with him but he will then invite you to his house a few days later,” Former Detroit President Mayor and City Council Ken Cockrel JR told Detroit News.
“He always understands that it is a business and has never been private.” Collins was born in Detroit and graduated in 1957 from the Cass Technical Middle School, according to US home biography.
He attended Wayne State University in Detroit, majoring in political science and anthropology.