Adrian Fenty

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Adrian Fenty (2006)

Adrian Malik Fenty (born December 6, 1970 in Washington, DC ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Between January 2, 2007 and January 2, 2011, he held the office of mayor of the federal capital Washington.

Life

Adrian Fenty grew up in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington . He first studied English and economics at Oberlin College , then law at Howard University , where he graduated as a Juris Doctor .

When he took office as Mayor of Washington on January 2, 2007, he was 36 years old, the youngest person ever to be elected and the second youngest man in the United States to ever hold the office of mayor of a major city.

In April 2010, Fenty announced that it would run again for the office of mayor in the November elections of the same year. In the primary of his party, which practically anticipates the actual election given the weakness of the Republicans in the federal district, he only got 46 percent of the vote and was defeated by Vincent C. Gray , the chairman of the Washington City Council , who got 53 percent. Fenty was then offered by the Republicans to seek a write-in candidacy, but rejected this option and instead supported Gray, who clearly won the election with 70 percent. Around 20 percent of the vote went to Fenty, who was added as a write-in candidate by the voters on the ballot paper.

Fenty is married with two children. He is a member of the Afro-American brotherhood Kappa Alpha Psi .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew Stevens, Deputy Editor: Adrian Fenty: Mayor of Washington, DC In: citymayors.com. Retrieved July 24, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Thomson Gale: Contemporary Black biography . Gale Research, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7876-7932-3 , pp. 60 (American English).
  3. ↑ Who's Who: Adrian Fenty - Mayor. Learning Matters Inc., archived from the original on October 21, 2008 ; accessed on March 31, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ DC Board of Elections ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dcboee.org
  5. ^ Mayor Adrian M. Fenty. In: washingtonpost.com. Retrieved July 24, 2009 .
  6. ↑ David Nakamura, Dion Haynes: Kwame Jackson Promotes Fenty. In: washingtonpost.com. October 19, 2006, accessed July 25, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Fenty, Adrian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fenty, Adrian Malik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, Mayor of Washington
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC