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Meet Richard Gordon Hatcher the first African American mayor of Gary, Indiana.

Meet Richard Gordon Hatcher the first African American mayor of Gary, Indiana.

Richard Gordon Hatcher was an attorney, politician and the first Black American mayor of Gary, Indiana. Hatcher served  as mayor for 20 years from 1968 to 1988. Hatcher was born on July 10, 1933, in Michigan City, Indiana. Hatcher and Carl Stokes, who was mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, where the first African Americans elected to […]