Tommie Broadwater Jr., a power broker in Maryland politics who was the first African American to represent Prince George’s County in the state senate, where he lost his seat after he was convicted on charges stemming from food stamp fraud, died at 81.
A representative of J.B. Jenkins Funeral Home in Hyattsville, Md., confirmed his death. Additional details were not immediately available.
Mr. Broadwater ran unsuccessfully three more times for public office. He remained a central figure in Prince George’s County politics, an adviser to officeholders and aspirants alike. Mr. Broadwater, the second of 10 children, was born in Washington on June 9, 1942. His father was a construction worker and his mother was a cook.He grew up in Prince George’s County, attending the then-segregated public schools, and pumping gas and doing other odd jobs in the neighborhood where he would later operate his businesses., earning the nickname Rocky — short for Rockefeller — in an early display of his entrepreneurial spirit.
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