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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.
Mayors of Jackson, Mississippi (22 P) M. ... Pages in category "Mayors of places in Mississippi" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
List of mayors of Jackson, Mississippi; M. ... List of mayors of Yazoo City, Mississippi This page was last edited on 3 May 2020, at 15:42 (UTC). Text is ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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