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Kwame Malik Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is an American former politician and convicted felon who served as the 72nd mayor of Detroit from 2002 to 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented the 9th district in the Michigan House of Representatives from 1997 to 2002.
Carolyn Jean Cheeks Kilpatrick (born June 25, 1945) is a former American politician who was U.S. Representative for Michigan's 15th congressional district and then Michigan's 13th congressional district from 1997 to 2011.
Kilpatrick was born into slavery in Alabama, in October 1829. [1] He married his wife Bettie Bradford in 1863, after he and his owner moved to Louisiana. He later moved to Austin County, Texas, eventually moving onto a 400-acre farm in Hempstead for the remainder of his life. He had 7 children with his wife, and owned a blacksmith shop.
The voice of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick now fills the airwaves in Michigan in praise of the man who ... Bitter cold spreads across much of the US as Texas and the South brace for rare winte
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick paid a visit to a crowded political rally in Saginaw County on Wednesday for the man who commuted his prison sentence in 2021: former President Donald Trump.
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959 – February 3, 1998) was an American woman sentenced to death for killing two people with a pickaxe during a burglary. [2] She was the first woman to be executed in the United States since Velma Barfield in 1984 in North Carolina, and the first in Texas since Chipita Rodriguez in 1863. [3]
The Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal was a political sex scandal in the United States emerging from a whistleblower lawsuit involving former Detroit Police chief Gary Brown, Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff and paramour Christine Beatty.
Carla Jan Walker was born on January 31, 1957, to Leighton and Doris Walker. [6] Carla was a 17-year-old Western Hills High School student and cheerleader. [7]On the evening of February 17, 1974, Walker was sitting with her boyfriend, Rodney McCoy, in his car in the parking lot of Brunswick Ridglea Bowl after attending a dance at Western Hills High School. [1]