Current U.S. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver rose from humble beginnings in Texas to become the first Black mayor of Kansas City, Mo. The Alpha man and United Methodist Minister was elected to the mayor’s seat on March 26, 1991 and sworn in the following month.
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Cleaver was born October 26, 1944 in Waxachie, Texas, and raised in public housing in Wichita Falls. After attending Murray State College as a football player with pro dreams, a knee injury forced a shift and he went on to graduate from Prairie View A&M University in 1968.
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