Eliot L. Engel, a former chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs who represented New York in Congress for more than three decades, died April 10 in the Bronx. He was 79. His family announced the death in a statement but did not cite a cause. Mr. Engel served 16 terms in the House, rising to become the chamber’s longest-serving member from New York and one of its most senior Democrats. Amid the coronavirus pandemic and a reckoning over racial justice, he suffered an upset defeat in the 2020 primary, losing to Jamaal Bowman, a Black middle school principal...