biography
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| US politician, born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He attended Howard University and Brooklyn Law School (1953). After election to the New York state assembly (1965), he served as city clerk (1975–85). In his bid to become mayor of the city, he first won the Democratic Party primary. His policy of racial harmony was popular among black and white voters, and he was elected New York's first black mayor in 1989, but in 1993 lost his bid for re-election to Rudolph Giuliani, the first Republican to be elected Mayor of New York City since 1965. |
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