Saturday, June 11, 2011

First Black Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida

On May 14, 2011, the voters of Duval County, Florida elected Alvin Brown Mayor of Jacksonville.

Mayor Elect Brown will be the first African-American to serve as mayor of Jacksonville.

In the 1880s, Jacksonville had a Jewish-American mayor, Morris A. Dzialynski, pronounced "Dah-linsky."

In the 1980s, Jacksonville voters elected an Arab-American mayor, Tommy Hazouri.