Ex-Suffolk GOP head John Powell dead at 51
Photo credit: Newsday, 1998 / John Cornell | John Powell, Suffolk GOP chairman when this photo was taken, has died at the age of 51.
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John Powell, who rose from a highway department payloader driver to one of the state's most powerful Republican leaders until his conviction on federal corruption charges, died Wednesday after being stricken at his Medford home.
Powell, 51, was found by his daughter Alexandra in bed unconscious, family members said. He was taken by ambulance to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced...
