Former Baltimore mayor D’Alesandro, Pelosi’s brother, dies at 90

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In this Oct. 11, 2016, photo former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro III, 87, poses for a pho ... — In this Oct. 11, 2016, photo former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro III, 87, poses for a photo outside City Hall in Baltimore, Md. D’Alesandro III, the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died. He was 90. A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (Amy Davis/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

In this March 11, 2008, photo former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro III poses for a photo in Baltimore, Md. D’Alesandro III, the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died. He was 90. A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (Jed Kirschbaum/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

In this 1968 photo Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro looks at the ruins of a Baltimore building, one of many that burned during the weekend rioting, in Baltimore, Md. D’Alesandro III, the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died. He was 90. A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (William L. LaForce/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

FILE – In this Jan. 5, 2007 file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., left, laughs as her brother Thomas D’ Alesandro III, right, makes a joke as he introduces her husband Paul, during a street renaming ceremony in her behalf, in Baltimore. A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, he was 90. (AP Photo/Chris Gardner, File)

FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2002 file photo, former Baltimore city Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro III, center, Richard W. Slossen, Executive Director of the Maryland Stadium Authority, right, and Baltimore City Coucilman Bob Curran, left, laugh as they look over the contents of an unveiled time capsule in Baltimore. D’Alesandro III, the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died. He was 90. A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Gail Burton, File)

BALTIMORE — Thomas D’Alesandro III, a former Baltimore mayor and the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died. He was 90.

A spokesman for Pelosi said D’Alesandro died Sunday morning at his north Baltimore home after complications from a stroke.

Pelosi says in a statement that she and her family are devastated. She called her brother “the finest public servant I have ever known.”

D’Alesandro served as Baltimore City Council president and then as mayor from 1967 to 1971, a position his father, prominent Maryland politician Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., also held. The elder D’Alesandro also served as a state delegate and congressman.

The younger D’Alesandro didn’t seek re-election as mayor and went into private law practice.

Pelosi says D’Alesandro is survived by his wife, Margaret, his five children and his grandchildren.