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Feb 12, 2020 · Sharon Pratt Kelly was mayor of the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1995, the first female leader of the nation’s capital and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major...
Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly is the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the first female leader of the nation's capital and the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major urban city.
views 1,430,162 updated. KELLY, SHARON PRATT DIXON. From 1991 to 1994, the difficult job of running Washington, D.C., belonged to Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, a successful utilities attorney who had had no previous experience in city government. Kelly was voted mayor in the wake of Marion Barry's fall from political grace.
Sharon Pratt , formerly Sharon Pratt Dixon and Sharon Pratt Kelly, is an American attorney and politician. She was the third Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1995. Pratt was the first African American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city.
Sharon Pratt Became DC's First Black Female Mayor. Step back to the world of Washington, DC politics in 1990, as Sharon Pratt Dixon emerged as a formidable candidate for the mayoral race following a political vacuum left by Marion Barry. A fresh face in politics, she embodied change, determination, and a promise to clean house in the city.
Oct 19, 2023 · 42 episodes. IPPH On Air is hosted by former DC Mayor and the Institute of Politics Policy and History’s Founding Director, Sharon Pratt. Each program, we take a deep dive into pressing issues of the day, exploring them through the lens of comparable historical events in our city - Washington, D.C. - and the nation.
Sharon Pratt was the first female leader of the nation's capital. Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1991 - 1995, she became the first black female to se...
