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The post of Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, was begun in 1834 and was originally referred to as "President of Selectmen" before being changed to "Mayor". Harvey Johnson Jr. elected in 1997 became the city's first black mayor. All of the mayors since have also been African American. The following individuals have held the office:
This category is for people who held the office of mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. Pages in category "Mayors of Jackson, Mississippi" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Harvey Johnson Jr. (born December 21, 1946), [1] [2] is an American politician from Mississippi.He was elected in 1997 as the first African American Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, serving two terms.
He is the son of former mayor and Black nationalist activist Chokwe Lumumba, who served briefly as mayor of Jackson before his death in 2014. [4] He was first elected in 2017. In the primary election, Lumumba soundly [5] won the Democratic nomination, defeating both incumbent mayor Tony Yarber and State Senator John Horhn. [6]
Frank Ervin Melton (March 19, 1949 – May 7, 2009) [1] was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, United States, from 4 July 2005 until his death on 7 May 2009.Melton, an African American, defeated the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. Melton won 63 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary against Johnson, who had served two terms.
Tony Yarber (born April 16, 1978) is an American pastor, educator and politician in Jackson, Mississippi.He was elected as Mayor of Jackson in April 2014 from special election following the death in office of Chokwe Lumumba. [1]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jackson’s troubled water system could get a new set of owners under legislation advanced Tuesday by The post Jackson, MS water system could get new owners appeared first ...
In 1977, he ran for the mayor office of Jackson, Mississippi as a Democrat, beating Republican candidate Doug Shanks. [7] [8] He won re-election in 1981. [2] Starting in 1985, he became the first mayor of the city under mayor-council form. [9] Danks stopped being the mayor of Jackson in 1989, when he lost in a runoff election to J. Kane Ditto ...