Herbert “Bertie” Bowman, the longest-serving African American congressional staffer in history who worked on Capitol Hill for over 60 years, died Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the ...

Sen. John Kerry hugs Bowman after his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for Secretary of State on January 24, 2013. Ken Cedeno/Getty Images ...

Press: Coming soon: The Bertie Bowman Senate Office Building by Bill Press, opinion contributor - 11/07/23 9:45 AM ET. by Bill Press, opinion contributor - 11/07/23 9:45 AM ET.

Bertie Bowman, the son of South Carolina sharecroppers who arrived at the U.S. Capitol in 1944 as a 13-year-old runaway, got a $2-a-week job sweeping the building’s steps, and then became the ...

Herbert “Bertie” Bowman, the longest-serving African American congressional staffer in history who worked on Capitol Hill for over 60 years, died Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the ...

When former Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican, assumed the chair of the committee, he told Bowman he wanted him to return as his hearing coordinator, Bowman told C-Span in 2008. Bertie ...

Herbert “Bertie” Bowman, the longest-serving African American congressional staffer in history who worked on Capitol Hill for over 60 years, died Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the ...