Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings dies at 68
World | October 17, 2019 22:10 ISTMaryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, died Thursday of complications from longstanding health problems. He was 68.