Daily News | T. Milton Street Sr., former activist and politician, has died at 81
Thomas Milton Street Sr., who made a name for himself as an activist fighting poverty and homelessness in Philadelphia and later served in the Pennsylvania House and Senate, died Monday. He was 81.“He fought to break down barriers and visualized ways government could work for everyday folks by enacting change through policy regardless of political affiliation,” Sharif wrote of his uncle.
Mr. Street and his brother John, who would later serve two terms as mayor from 2000 to 2008, urged homeless people to take over abandoned homes and then fought the city and federal agencies that tried to evict them. Mr. Street would spend the next 35 years — off and on — trying to again win public office, as a Democrat, Republican and independent.
Mr. Street last made an attempt to run for office in 2020. He was serving as a Republican ward leader but planned to run as an independent in the mayor’s race, though he never filed nomination petitions.
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