[DOC] [TLE] Carl Stokes - Wikipedia [PAR] Carl Burton Stokes (June 21, 1927  April 3, 1996) was an American politician of the Democratic party who served as the 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, and taking office on January 1, 1968, he was the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city. [DOC] [TLE] Carl Stokes, 68, Dies; Precedent-Setting Mayor - The New York Times [PAR] Apr 4, 1996 ... Carl Stokes, 68, Dies; Precedent-Setting Mayor. Carl B. Stokes, whose election as the first black mayor of a major city in 1967 became a symbol of a changing America, died early yesterday in Cleveland. He was 68. [DOC] [TLE] Carl Stokes - News Anchor, Mayor, Lawyer - Biography.com [PAR] Apr 2, 2014 ... ... the first African American elected to mayor in a major U.S. city on ... News 
Anchor, Mayor, Lawyer (19271996) ... Carl Stokes served as the Cleveland, 
Ohio's mayor from 1967 to ... His father died when Stokes was young. [DOC] [TLE] Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major American city: Black ... [PAR] Feb 20, 2011 ... Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major American city: Black ... Stokes served 
on the Cleveland Municipal Court from 1983 to 1994. His judgeship made him 
the nation's first black person to be directly elected to all three branches ... Stokes 
died from complications of esophagus cancer on April 3, 1996. [DOC] [TLE] CNN - U.S. News Briefs - April 3, 1996 [PAR] Apr 3, 1996 ... Carl Stokes, former Cleveland mayor, dead at 68 ... Stokes, the first black elected 
mayor of a major U.S. city, died of cancer early Wednesday. [DOC] [TLE] Carl B. Stokes - Ohio History Central [PAR] His father died when Carl was three years old, and Stokes' mother struggled to ... 
He was the first African American member of the Democratic Party elected to ... 
Undaunted, in 1967, Stokes again sought election as Cleveland's mayor and ... 
Stokes was one of the first African Americans to serve as mayor of a major U.S. 
city. [DOC] [TLE] International Civil Rights: Walk of Fame - Mayor Carl Stokes [PAR] 1927 - 1996. Elected the 51st Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1967, Carl Burton 
Stokes became the first African American Mayor of a major U.S. city. Born in 
Cleveland, Carl Stokes was raised by a hardworking mother (his father died 
when Carl was 2) who constantly stressed the value of education. After his Army 
discharge,... [DOC] [TLE] Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: STOKES, CARL B. [PAR] May 30, 2013 ... STOKES, CARL B. - The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. STOKES, CARL B. (
21 June 1927 - 3 April 1996) became the first black mayor of a major U.S. city 
when ... He was born in Cleveland to Charles Stokes, a laundry worker who died 
when Carl ... Elected the first black Democrat to the Ohio House of... [DOC] [TLE] Carl B. Stokes Facts - Biography - YourDictionary [PAR] Carl B. Stokes (1927-1996), mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, was the first elected black 
mayor of a major American city. ... (his father died when Carl was 3) who 
constantly stressed the value of education. ... He died in Cleveland on April 3, 
1996. [DOC] [TLE] Stokes, Carl B. (1927-1996) | The Black Past: Remembered and ... [PAR] Stokes, Carl B. (1927-1996) ... Carl B. Stokes, lawyer, anchorman, U.S. diplomat 
and the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, was born on ... Carl 
Stokes's political career also began in 1962 when he was elected to the ... Stokes 
died at the Cleveland Clinic on April 3, 1996 of complications related to his 
cancer. [DOC] [TLE] Carl B. Stokes Dies -- First Black Mayor Of Major City - tribunedigital ... [PAR] ... who in 1967 became the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city, 
Cleveland, ... April 03, 1996 ... Stokes, who had suffered from

Question: This former Cleveland mayor, the first black elected mayor of a major U.S. city, died in 1996
Answer: (Carl) Stokes