Vincent Orange

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Councilmember Vincent Bernard Orange, Sr. (b. April 11, 1957^[1]) is a politician from Washington, DC, the capital of the United States. He was most recently a Democratic member of the Council of the District of Columbia, where he served as an elected Councilmember for Ward 5.

On September 12, 2006, Orange lost his bid for mayor in the Democratic Primary of the 2006 Washington, DC Mayoral Race. Vincent Orange Sr. is now the Regional Vice President for Pepco Holdings Inc. for the Washington, DC metro area.

Vincent Orange is an attorney and a certified public accountant. He graduated from the University of the Pacific where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, 1979, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, 1980. In 1983 he earned a Juris Doctor from Howard University. In 1988, he graduated from the Georgetown University law Center where he earned a Master of Laws in Taxation.

Councilmember Orange served as Chair of the Committee on Government Operations. There are numerous agencies under the Committee on Government Operation's purview that play an integral role in developing the overall policy for the District of Columbia. He also sat on three standing committees: Public Services, Public Works and the Environment, and Labor, Voting Rights and Redistricting.

Councilmember Orange also possesses international experience. In 1988, he served as a United States delegate to the United States/Japan Bilateral Session: "A New Era in Legal and Economic Relations," in Tokyo, Japan. In 1990, he served as a delegate to the Moscow Conference on the Law and Bilateral Economic Relations, in Moscow, USSR. In 1991, he was a delegate to the First African/American Summit convened in Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire and Dakar, Senegal. In 1993, he was a delegate to the Second African/African American Summit held in Libreville, Gabon.