Howard Nathaniel Lee

Biography

Howard Nathaniel Lee (born July 28, 1934) is an American politician who served as Mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from 1969 to 1975. He was the first African-American mayor elected in Chapel Hill, and the first African American to be elected mayor of any majority-white city in the South. Later serving as North Carolina Secretary of Environmental and Natural Resources, Lee would also become the first African American to hold a state cabinet post in North Carolina.

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