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...That’s why some people thought I wanted to be mayor; so I could have more fire trucks,” says Purcell, who first learned how to drive behind the wheel of the fire truck...
...After spending two years as the director of Vanderbilt’s Institute of Public Policy Studies, Purcell says he decided to run for mayor of Nashville as a “conclusion” to the crusade he had begun years before in Vanderbilt’s Legal Aid Society to improve the lives of children...
...asked me if I would have ran for mayor I would have said, and did tell people, ‘No,’” Purcell says, leaning on the table as he had done earlier while discussing the beginning of his interest in child welfare...
...While Purcell worked to increase school funding, improve the Nashville economy, and provide more affordable housing during his two terms as mayor, his friends joked that he ran for less noble reasons...
...children were captivated, and he was a natural,” Packrone said. “At then end of the year, the one lesson the kids really remembered was the one about executives. They also remembered that Bill Purcell, the former mayor of Nashville, had taught the class...