4 mayors, 1 city: Young interviews the Memphis mayors before him
Current Memphis Mayor Paul Young left (top left) has posted videos of three separate interviews he did recently with the previous three mayors of the city: Willie Herenton (top right), A C Wharton Jr. (bottom left) and Jim Strickland (bottom right). (The Daily Memphian file)
Mayor Paul Young said he wants to shift the perspective of mayoral accomplishments to be throughout several administrations. To make his point, he interviewed previous Memphis mayors: Willie Herenton, A C Wharton Jr. and Jim Strickland.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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