Biography · Politics & Public Life
Jessie M. Rattley
1929–2001
United States
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Jessie Menifield Rattley (May 4, 1929 – March 2, 2001) served as the mayor of Newport News, Virginia from 1986 to 1990, the first woman and first African-American to hold the mayorship.
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