What is Louis Stokes?
[[File:Louis Stokes.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Stokes in 1969]] '''Louis Stokes''' (February 23, 1925 &ndash; August 18, 2015) was an [[Americans|American]] attorney and politician. He was born in [[Cleveland, Ohio]]. He served 15 terms in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1969 through 1999. He was the first [[black people|black]] [[congressman]] elected in the state of [[Ohio]]. Stokes died in Cleveland, Ohio from [[lung cancer|lung]] and [[brain cancer]], aged 90.<ref>[http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cleveland/2015/08/19/former-congressman-louis-stokes-has-died/30953725/ WKCY Former Congressman Louis Stokes has died]{{Dead link|date=October 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commonscat-inline}} * [http://www.stokescleveland.org Western Reserve Historical Society's website about the lives of Louis and Carl Stokes] * [http://collections.mdch.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/saac&CISOPTR=25701&REC=1 Collections] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727074323/http://collections.mdch.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2Fsaac&CISOPTR=25701&REC=1 |date=2011-07-27 }} *[http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/stokes-american-dream/ ''Stokes: An American Dream''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728202905/http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/stokes-american-dream/ |date=2014-07-28 }} on [[PBS]]'s [[World (TV channel)|World channel]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Stokes, Louis}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:African-American politicians]] [[Category:American military personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Cancer deaths in Ohio]] [[Category:Deaths from brain cancer]] [[Category:Deaths from lung cancer]] [[Category:Military people from Ohio]] [[Category:Politicians from Cleveland]] [[Category:United States representatives from Ohio]] [[Category:Democratic Party (United States) politicians]] [[Category:Lawyers from Cleveland]] {{US-bio-stub}}