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Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor.
Having long since recanted his segregationist views, Abbitt endorsed L. Douglas Wilder, who became Virginia's first black governor in 1989. According to his son, state delegate Watkins Abbitt Jr., he and his sisters played a role in his father's change of heart. Watkins Jr. noted that in his later years, his father always worked for free for ...
Kluge was born to a Presbyterian family in Chemnitz, ... and in 1989 he donated $100,000 to gubernatorial candidate L. Douglas Wilder. [12] Personal life
She and Lawrence met in the summer of 1992, while she was working in Gov. Douglas Wilder's media office. Lawrence was appearing in Richmond at a Def Comedy Jam concert. Lawrence and Southall have one child together, daughter Jasmin Page Lawrence (born January 15, 1996). They divorced in 1997. [4]
During Baliles's administration, the state gained 300,000 jobs, and boasted the highest per-capita income in the South (the ninth highest in the nation). Despite a national recession in the final year of his term, Baliles's popularity helped secure the narrow election of Douglas Wilder as governor in 1989.
Michael Douglas has opened up about the ups and downs of being a parent later in life.. In an interview with the Telegraph published on 20 April, the 79-year-old actor described the challenges of ...
Michael Douglas. (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage via Getty Images) Michael Douglas doesn’t mind being an older dad, even when he is occasionally mistaken for his kids’ grandfather. The ...
He co-founded the Richmond, Virginia law firm of Wilder & Gregory in 1982 with L. Douglas Wilder (the first African-American to be elected governor in the United States), and became the chair of its litigation section in 1985. [2] Gregory is also a member of several fraternal organizations, including Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and Sigma Pi Phi ...