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Percy, who was born in Texas and studied law at Columbia University and Brooklyn Law School on the GI Bill, became Manhattan borough president in 1966--making him the highest-ranking black official in the state at the time. His 1977 run for mayor was unsuccessful, but his work cleared the way for politicians like Representative Charlie Rangel and David Dinkins, who in 1989 was elected the city's first black mayor...
Winters added that council members were also unable to decide upon a mayor at the first meeting of the year in 2007, 2005, as well...
...ready to vote as often as I need to until we as a group can choose a mayor," he said. "It's going to take a lot more talking, and some more cups of coffee...
...first re-vote for mayor will take place at the next City Council meeting...
Outgoing Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons and councilor Henrietta Davis received only their own votes...