Sharon Pratt Dixon (later Sharon Pratt Kelly; b. 1944) is a former mayor of Washington, DC. 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United...

Sharon Pratt was born January 30, 1944 in Washington. She received both undergraduate and law degrees from Howard University, following the career path of her father, a superior court judge, and was a professor in law at Antioch College before returning to Washington in 1977. January 30 is the 30th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Howard University is a historically black college in Washington, D.C. It was established by a congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmens Bureau. ... Antioch College is a private liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

In 1983 she was made Vice President of Community Relations at Pepco, the local power utility, becoming the first woman and first African-American to serve in that role. The same year, she won the Presidential Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Potomac Electric Power Company (known as PEPCO) is a public utility supplying electric power to the city of Washington, DC and to surrounding communities in Maryland. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. ...

Pratt directed the failed 1982 mayoral campaign of Patricia Roberts Harris and married Arrington Dixon, a Democrat on the DC city council. Her political energies, however, were drawn to national rather than local politics. She was a member of the Democratic National Committee from the District of Columbia from 1977-90, the first female to hold that position. She served as Treasurer of the DNC 1985-89. 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Categories: 1924 births | 1985 deaths | U.S. Secretaries of Health and Human Services | U.S. Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare | People stubs ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... A city council is the most common style of legislative government in a city or town. ... Tdfsdfsdfsdhe Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal dfsdcampaign and fund-raising organization affiliated with the United States Democratic Party. ...

Pratt was sworn in as mayor of Washington on January 2, 1991, the first African-American woman to serve as mayor of a major American city. Early in her term, she married James R. Kelly III, a New York businessman, and changed her name to Sharon Pratt Kelly. January 2 is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Mayoral Administration

Upset with the decline of her hometown, she announced she would challenge incumbent mayor Marion Barry in the 1990 election at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, a race also joined by three DC Councilmen. As an unknown without previous experience in District politics, she was free to criticize Barry and the "three blind mice," and promised to "clean house with a shovel, not a broom." Kelly received the endorsement of the Washington Post, and after Barry was arrested on drug charges and dropped out the race, she won handily. The incumbent, in politics, is the current holder of a political office. ... Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. ... The 1988 Democratic National Convention was held in Atlanta, Georgia in July of 1988, to select a candidate for the 1988 United States presidential election. ... ...

Once in office, however, the aloof Kelly proved ineffective. Her vows to slash the city employment rolls won little support among city employees, high crime and ongoing failures of city services disillusioned the electorate, and suspicion of questionable accounting tactics and the city's deteriorating finances found strong disfavor in the United States Congress. In the second year of her term, Barry loyalists mounted a recall campaign which although unsuccessful weakened her administration, which backed away from reform in light of union opposition. The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. ...

In the 1994 Democratic primary, Kelly finished a distant third, losing to Marion Barry.

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