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Loretta Thompson-Glickman

1945–2001

United States

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Loretta Jean Thompson-Glickman (May 23, 1945 – March 18, 2001) was an American politician. She became the first African-American mayor of Pasadena, California, in 1982, which also made her the first Black woman to be mayor of an American city of over 100,000 residents.

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