Jimmy Tayoun was a former Democratic member of the Philadelphia City Council and Representative of the PA House. He passed away due to a heart attack on the morning of Nov. 1st, 2017.
Tayoun had been a sportswriter, restaurateur, city councilman, state representative, federal prison inmate, and newspaper publisher, according to The Philadelphia Daily News.
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