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...passed the Ohio bar examination in 1957, Stokes resigned his court job and went into law practice with his brother. A year later Mayor Anthony Celebrezze appointed him an assistant prosecutor under City Law Director Ralph Locher. The next step, in 1962, was election to the state legislature, where he quickly established himself as a prolific, catholic lawmaker. He helped draft legislation establishing a state department of urban affairs, wrote a new mental-health services act, helped enact stiffer traffic regulations, promoted a gun-control bill, worked for tougher air-pollution controls, and was the only Democrat to sponsor...
Slickest Team. To those who had watched his carefully conducted campaign, Stokes's nomination came as no surprise. Ever since Stokes-then running as an independent-lost to Locher by 2,143 votes in the general election two years ago, he had been applying himself to the problem of carrying a city in which 62% of the registered electorate was white and the regular Democratic Party machinery was solidly behind Mayor Locher...
...Cleveland. Negro and white volunteers flocked to his support, forming an active core of 3,000 workers in ten branch offices throughout the city. Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King traveled to Cleveland to campaign for him. All told, Stokes's volunteers distributed 60,000 bumper stickers (to Locher's 14,000), passed out another 60,000 door knob notices...
Stokes's energy and good taste in refusing to turn the campaign into a racist contest earned him influential support from the city's business community and the endorsement of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He was helped, too, by Locher's pallid campaign and mediocre six-year record as mayor. Cleveland's afternoon newspaper, the Press, refused to support Locher as it had in previous elections; while expressing a mild preference for Dark Horse Frank P. Celeste (who ended up with only 4.1% of the vote), the Press declared Stokes an acceptable alternative...
...state laws controlling riots and the sale of firearms. He has refused to support establishment of a civilian review board for the police, but he vowed, if elected, to fire Police Chief Richard Wagner for being insensitive to the city's racial problems. He hit at the Locher administration's weaknesses: lagging urban renewal, lethargic leadership, and festering discontent in the slums. His campaign was a shrewd mixture of tolerance and toughness...