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- ↑ "Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence". Selection Committees. Bruner Foundation. Archived from the original on 7 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
- ↑ Former Mayor George Latimer: St. Paul's lion still roars
- ↑ "Central Library renamed for George Latimer". Saint Paul, Minnesota. 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
