Dennis Archer

Dennis Archer

Dennis Wayne Archer (born January 1, 1942 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ). He was the Mayor of Detroit and a judge on the Michigan Supreme Court . He later became the first African American president of the American Bar Association - the organization had not accepted African American lawyers as members until 1943.

Life

Dennis Archer studied at Western Michigan University and the Detroit College of Law . From 1986 to 1990 he was a judge on the Michigan Supreme Court.

In 1993 he was elected mayor of Detroit to succeed Coleman Young and remained so until 2001. As mayor, he worked particularly on the integration of the suburbs of the big city. During his tenure, he also built Ford Field for the Detroit Lions and Comerica Park for the Detroit Tigers . Archer was President of the National League of Cities until 2000 . After the Devils Nights in Detroit, which were increasingly characterized by greater damage, he campaigned for greater civil society engagement from 1994 and initiated the so-called Angel's Night. In the following years, up to 50,000 Detroit citizens took part in it to prevent arson by night patrols.

After serving as mayor, Archer became the first African American to become President of the Central American Lawyers Association in 2003, and remained in that position for a year.

Web links

• Dennis Archer in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dennis W. Archer | Our People | Dickinson Wright. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .