Marshall Pitts Jr. | |
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Mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina | |
In office December 3, 2001 [1] –December 2005 | |
Preceded by | Milo McBryde |
Succeeded by | Tony Chavonne |
Personal details | |
Profession | Democratic |
Marshall B. Pitts Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. He served as the Mayor of Fayetteville,North Carolina,for two terms from 2001 until 2005. Pitts was the city's first African-American mayor. [1] [2] [3]
Pitts attended Westover High School in Fayetteville,where he was a member of school's track team. [3] He graduated from the North Carolina Central University School of Law in 1990. [1]
Pitts first ran for a seat on the Fayetteville City Council in 1997,but lost the election by only 66 votes. [3] However,he staged a comeback and won election to a city council at-large seat in 1999,becoming the first African-American elected to city council in twenty years. [3]
In 2001,Pitts ran for Mayor of Fayetteville against incumbent Mayor Milo McBryde. [3] McBryde,a third generation member of a prominent Fayetteville political family,had served on the city council for twenty-two years on the city council at the time. [3] McBryde had been appointed as Mayor of Fayetteville in August 2000 following the death of longtime Mayor J.L. Dawkins,who died in office. [3] Pitts' 2001 campaign slogan was "Change Is Coming." [2]
Pitts defeated McBryde in the mayoral election held on November 6,2001. [3] He earned approximately 56% of the vote (11,405 votes),while incumbent Mayor McBryde placed second with 44% (8,979 votes). [3] [4] Pitts was sworn into office on December 3,2001,becoming the city's first African-American mayor. [1] [3] He was re-elected to a second term in a mayoral runoff election held on November 4,2003. [2] Pitts easily defeated his opponent,real estate agent Robert Anderson,in the 2003 runoff. [2] Pitts' 2003 slogan was "Change Is Now." [2]
Under Pitts' second term,areas of adjacent Cumberland County,North Carolina,were annexed into Fayetteville,adding approximately 43,000 new residents to the city's population. [2]
Pitts was defeated for re-election on November 8,2005,by Tony Chavonne. [5] [6] [7] Chavonne received around 55% of the vote in 2005. [5] The annexations of new areas into Fayetteville seemed to play a pivotal role in the election. [5] Chavonne overwhelmingly defeated Pitts in the newly annexed areas of the city. [5]
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