Word: hatchett
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...Ford and Texas' Barbara Jordan?hold seats in the House. There are 99 black state legislators, ranging from Georgia's 22 to Virginia's two, out of a total of 1,782 seats available. Only one Southern black has been elected to office by statewide vote: he is Joseph Hatchett, 44, a fruit picker's son who won a place on the Florida Supreme Court. Last week Howard Lee, a black former mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., got 46% of the vote in a Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor ?a good showing, but not enough. In Mississippi, Fred...