U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) was one of nine GOP congressman to oppose renaming a post office in Winston-Salem, N.C. to honor civil rights activist Maya Angelou. Credit: Journal Sentinel files

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Apparently, U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, a Republican from the Town of Glenbeulah in Sheboygan County, isn't much of a fan of the late poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou.

Grothman was one of nine Republican lawmakers on Tuesday to oppose naming a post office in Winston-Salem, N.C. to honor Angelou, the Washington Post reported.

According to the Post, Grothman went on the House floor and said, "I think people should investigate Maya Angelou a little bit, and I’ll suggest perhaps if you want to investigate a little bit further that perhaps you Google ‘Maya Angelou’ and look at other articles in places like the American Thinker or the American Spectator.”

After Angelou's death in 2014, those publications noted her "embrace of radical leftist politics in the 1960s — including sympathies for Fidel Castro and interactions with Malcolm X," the Post said.

At President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration, Angelou recited a poem, "On the Pulse of Morning."

The measure to name the post office to honor Angelou passed on a vote of 371-9-1, with one member voting present.