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...mayor in 1969 and won, the first Democrat to do so in 32 years. In two terms, the Fordham-educated lawyer cleaned up corruption, balanced the budget and restored Yonkers, his birthplace, to a semblance of civic health. Since his upset victory last year, which made him the youngest county executive in Westchester's history, he has laid plans for recycling garbage into energy and begun...
Robert J. Fitzpatrick, 34, a Canadian-born, onetime Jesuit seminarian, holds a master's degree in medieval French and oscillates between Johns Hopkins University, where he is dean of students, and city hall, where he is Baltimore's youngest city councilman. "More people should spend a limited time in public office, rather than a lifetime," says Fitzpatrick, a liberal Democrat. His goal: to be a U.S. Senator and a college president-not simultaneously...
...student in Puerto Rico, outlining the cultural, political and economic advantages of the island's commonwealth status. After serving as Secretary of Justice, President of the Senate and head of the Popular Democratic Party, Hernández in 1972 upset the incumbent and became the youngest Governor in Puerto Rican history. Today, with his old thesis for a platform, Hernández is concentrating on improving his island's troubled economy. To increase efficiency, the commonwealth is purchasing the telephone company, and to reduce high freight costs, Hernández is negotiating to buy several shipping lines...
...Jersey City drug-rehabilitation center in the late 1960s when he joined the Community Action Council, a local group of disgruntled citizens. When then Mayor Thomas Whelan was packed off to prison for extortion and conspiracy in 1971, Democrat Jor dan won a special election to become the youngest mayor in Jersey City history and end the corrupt, malodorous 57-year dynasty of Bosses Frank Hague and John V. Kenny. Since taking office, he has announced plans for a $2 billion renovation of the city's waterfront and for new housing in older Jersey City neighborhoods. Last year...
Thomas L. Judge, 39. A Notre Dame journalism graduate, Montana's Democratic Governor was running an advertising and public relations agency in his native Helena when he became the state's youngest assemblyman in 1961. He was elected to the state senate six years later, in 1968 ran for Lieutenant Governor and won, and in 1972 was elected Governor. "A politician who does not respond to public opinion will find himself in trouble," he says pragmatically. After running into stiff opposition from environmentalists, he has recently soft-pedaled efforts to promote tourism and industry...