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Antonio Pagán, 50, Ex-Councilman, Is Dead
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| Last Edited | RBH Jan 28, 2009 03:04am |
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| News Date | Monday, January 26, 2009 09:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Antonio Pagán, a former New York City councilman whose iconoclastic views on matters from low-income housing to AIDS often infuriated liberal activists in his Lower East Side district, and who later became the employment commissioner under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, died on Sunday morning at Beth Israel Medical Center. He was 50.
The death was reported by Anne Hayes, who had been Mr. Pagán’s chief of staff. She said Mr. Pagán had been battling an illness, but she declined to specify any details or provide a cause of death.
Mr. Pagan, a native of Manhattan who spent much of his early life in Puerto Rico, became one of the two first openly gay men elected to the Council in 1991 after he narrowly upset the incumbent, Miriam Friedlander, in a close-fought Democratic primary. |
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