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Wilson, Lionel

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Born: 1915 AD
Died: 1998 AD, at 83 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Mayors, Politician

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1915 - Born in Oakland, California,

1932 - Lionel Wilson spent much of his youth on the playgrounds of Oakland honing his athletic skills. But when he entered Berkeley.

1939 - Wilson, who graduated from Berkeley, received his law degree from UC Hastings

1977 - Went on to become Alameda County's first black judge and Oakland's first black mayor, elected to three consecutive terms, beginning .

1978-1990 - He served as a three term mayor of Oakland.

         - He lost the mayorial election to Elihu Harris after making an expensive and unsuccessful bid to return the then Los Angeles Raiders to Oakland.

         - Wilson was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek letter fraternity established for African Americans.

1998 - Lionel Wilson died on the 23rd of February of cancer, he was 82.

2002 - Aspire Public Schools founded a small 6-12 grade school called Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Academy in Oakland.



















 





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