I would like to thank the chairman for his sensitivity in the support of the bill and for the kind words that he has given and extended to the recipient. Mr. Speaker. today I rise to pay tribute to my dear friend. former Congressman Mervyn Malcolm Dymally and redesignate the Post Office located at 701 South Santa Fe Avenue in Compton. California. currently known as the Compton Main Post Office. to the Mervyn Dymally Post Office Building. Jet Magazine. a prominent AfricanAmerican publication. once wrote. "Few black elected officials were more aggressive. uncompromising and daring than representative Mervyn Dymally." Mervyn Dymally was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1981 as the bodys first foreign born member. Mervyn came to this country in 1945 from Cedros. Trinidad.
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