D.C. Council member Marion Barry has undergone a kidney transplant at Howard University Hospital.
University spokesman Ron Harris says doctors began the surgery Friday afternoon and that a healthy kidney has been successfully transplanted.
Harris says Dr. Clive Callender, director of the transplant center at Howard, reports Barry will be on a breathing tube overnight to help him sleep. They expect to remove it in the morning.
A spokeswoman for Barry says the kidney donor is a longtime friend of Barry's.
Barry served four terms as mayor. In his third, he was videotaped in 1990 in a hotel room smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting. He served six months in prison and in 1994 regained the mayor's office and later became a councilman.
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