Louis Mason

==Background==
* Louis Mason was City Council president from 1970-1977. Because of illness he announced his resignation in February of 1977. At the time, there was an expectation that Mayor Flaherty would take a position in the newly elected Jimmy Carter administration. Flaherty would become deputy Attorney General. Mason had support to stay as city council president and likely become mayor when Flaherty left. But he resigned. If he had not resigned he would probably have been the city's first Black mayor. As it was Dick Caliguiri became city council president and then acting mayor before being elected on his own later in 1977.
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