Willie Herenton
Willie Herenton
Willie Wilbert Herentonis an American politician who was elected in 1991 as the first African-American mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, and re-elected to a total of five terms. He resigned in 2008 to run as superintendent of the school board. In 2010, he was a candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives, until his defeat in the Democratic primary against incumbent Steve Cohen...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 April 1940
CountryUnited States of America
Willie Herenton quotes about
If the news isn't there, don't create it. If I look at local news, I don't know what's real.
My primary motivation for running for the 9th Congressional District is that I strongly believe that one of the hallmarks of the American democracy is a representative form of democracy.