Yvonne Brown
Yvonne L. Rayford Brown (September 8, 1952 – April 23, 2012) was an American politician and member of the Republican Party from the state of Mississippi. She was elected as Mayor of Tchula, serving two terms from 2001 to 2009. This small town is in Holmes County on the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta. She was also the Republican nominee for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in the 2006 mid-term elections.She was notable for being the first female black Republican mayor in the state of Mississippi and the first in the entire United States, according to several sources. Provided by Wikipedia
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