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Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States.It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the borough of the Bronx.As of the 2020 census, Mount Vernon had a population of 73,893, making it the 24th-largest municipality in the state and largest African-American majority city in the state.
October 13, 2017: Kathy Ireland, American model and actress, turned author and entrepreneur; received the key from High Point mayor Bill Bencini. [311] December 3, 2023: Danny and Dolly Jennings were given a Key to the City from High Point Mayor Jay Wagner. This was in honor of all they have done for High Point.
Ronald Blackwood. Ronald Alexander Blackwood (January 19, 1926 – February 22, 2017) was a Jamaican -born American politician who served as the Mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, for eleven years from 1985 until 1996. On January 25, 1985, Blackwood became the first black Mayor of Mount Vernon, as well as the first black person elected mayor of ...
Westchester County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of New York, bordering the Long Island Sound to its east and the Hudson River on its west. The county is the seventh most populous county in the State of New York and the most populous north of New York City. [6] According to the 2020 United States Census, the ...
George Latimer (born November 22, 1953) is an American Democratic Party politician serving as County Executive in Westchester County, New York since 2018. Prior to his election as County Executive, he served in the New York State Senate for the 37th District from 2013 to 2017. He has also served on the Rye city council, in the Westchester ...
At the 2010 U.S. census, the village had a population of 28,967 and was the fifth-most populous village in New York State. In 2019, its population grew to a census-estimated 29,342 residents. [4] Located in southeast Westchester, Port Chester forms part of the New York City metropolitan statistical area .
First African American to be elected mayor of Mount Vernon, New York, and first African American elected mayor in New York: Ronald Blackwood; First African American to be appointed mayor of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee and first African-American appointed mayor in the state of Tennessee: Willie B. Baker; 1986
Occupation. Nurse/Counselor. Ruth Hassell-Thompson ( née Hassell; born November 6, 1942) of Mount Vernon, New York, is a former State Senator who represented the 36th district of New York, which includes the Bronx neighborhoods of Norwood, Bedford Park, Williamsbridge, Co-op City, Wakefield and Baychester and City of Mount Vernon .