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Goode's election was a first only in Philadelphia. Among other black mayoral candidates victorious last week, Richard Hatcher was elected to his fifth term in Gary, Ind., and Thirman Milner to his second in Hartford, Conn...
...elected were Republicans George Voinovich of Cleveland and Margaret Hance of Phoenix, and Democrats Richard Caliguiri of Pittsburgh, Donald Eraser of Minneapolis and Charles Royer of Seattle. Former Louisville Mayor Harvey Sloane, a Democrat, returned to office with 66% of the vote. In Hartford, Conn., Democratic State Representative Thirman L. Milner, 48, easily defeated two opponents to become the first elected black mayor of a major New England city. The moderate and low-keyed Milner, a former New York civil rights worker who effectively mobilized Hartford's large black and Hispanic population, had earlier unseated five-term Incumbent George...
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