Biography
Page was born in Orlando,the son of Arizona and Edoras Page,an African Methodist Episcopal minister. [1] He graduated from Jones High School in 1960,earned a B.A. from Morehouse College in 1964 and received a M.S. in mathematics from Atlanta University and an M.B.A. from Nova University. [1]
Page,an African-American,was first elected to the Orlando City Council in the early 1980s,but left office during his first term after a conviction for dealing in stolen property. [2]
He was elected to City Council again in 1996,and won re-election in 2000 and 2004. [3] In March 2005,he was serving as mayor pro tem under Mayor Buddy Dyer when Dyer was indicted and jailed for electoral fraud. Following Dyer's removal,Page took office as interim mayor. [4] He was interim mayor for about six weeks,until April 19,when the charges against Dyer were dropped and he was restored to office. [5] [6]
On March 1,2006,Councilman Page was arrested on charges of political corruption while in the mayor's office. In September 2006 he was convicted of bribery and official misconduct for threatening to stop a redevelopment proposal unless the prospective developer gave a piece of the project to a nonprofit group with which Page was affiliated. He was subsequently sentenced to 42 months in prison. [7]
Following his sentencing in December 2006,Page was removed from city office by an executive order from Governor Jeb Bush. [8] [9]
Page appealed his conviction in federal circuit court,but lost the appeal in March 2008. [10] He entered prison in June 2008. [11] He was released from prison in 2011 after serving about 3 years of his 3+1⁄2-year sentence. Most of his prison time was spent at Marion Correctional Institution in Marion County, Florida. [12]
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