Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Carolyn Jean Cheeks Kilpatrick (June 25, 1945 – October 7, 2025) was an American politician who was a U.S. representative from 1997 to 2011, first for Template:Ushr and then for Template:Ushr. She was a member of the Democratic Party. In August 2010 she lost the Democratic primary election to Hansen Clarke, who replaced her in January 2011 after winning the 2010 general election.[1][2][3] Kilpatrick was also the mother of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Early life, education and career

Born Carolyn Jean Cheeks in Detroit on June 25, 1945, she graduated from Detroit High School of Commerce.[4] She then attended Ferris State University in Big Rapids from 1968 to 1970 and earned a B.S. from Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo) in 1972. She earned a M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1977.[4] She worked as a high school teacher and was later a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996.[4]

U.S. House of Representatives

Committee assignments

Caucus and other membership

She was one of the 31 House Democrats who voted not to count the 20 electoral votes from Ohio in the 2004 presidential election.[5] Republican President George Bush won the state by 118,457 votes.[6]

The Congressional Black Caucus unanimously chose Kilpatrick as its chairwoman for the 110th Congress (2007-09).[4]

On September 29, 2008, she voted against the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. [1]

Political campaigns

In 1996, Kilpatrick challenged three-term incumbent Barbara-Rose Collins in the 1996 Democratic primary for what was then the 15th District. She defeated Collins by a shocking margin, taking 51.6 percent of the vote to Collins' 30.6 percent. This was tantamount to election in this heavily Democratic, black-majority district. She was reelected six times, never dropping below 80 percent of the vote. Her district was renumbered as the 13th District after the 2000 Census. She faced no major-party opposition in 2004 and was completely unopposed in 2006.

2008

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2010

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". In 2010, she was again challenged in the Democratic primary. Unlike in 2008, her opposition coalesced around State Senator Hansen Clarke, who defeated her in the August 3 primary. “This is the final curtain: the ending of the Kilpatrick dynasty,” said Detroit political consultant Eric Foster of Foster, McCollum, White and Assoc. [7] NPR and CBS News both noted that throughout her re-election campaign, she was dogged by questions about her son, Kwame Kilpatrick, who is in prison on numerous corruption charges.[8][9] Michigan Live reported that her election defeat could in part be attributed to the Kwame Kilpatrick scandals.[10]

Personal life and death

Kilpatrick was a member of the Detroit Substance Abuse Advisory Council, and was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.

Kilpatrick was married to Bernard Nathaniel Kilpatrick from 1968 until divorcing in 1981.[11] The couple had two children, daughter Ayanna and son Kwame Kilpatrick, a former Mayor of Detroit. She had six grandsons including two sets of twins and two granddaughters. Both her former husband and son were on trial, under an 89-page felony indictment. On March 11, 2013, her son was found guilty on 24 of 30 federal charges and her former spouse was found guilty on 1 of 4 federal charges.[12]

Kilpatrick lived in Metro Atlanta in her later years, and died from Alzheimer's disease at her daughter's home in Fayetteville, Georgia, on October 7, 2025, at the age of 80.[4][13]

Electoral history

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Michigan's 13th congressional district general election, 2008
Party Candidate Votes %
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Michigan's 13th district Democratic primary, August 3, 2010[14]
Party Candidate Votes %
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See also

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References

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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
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