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COGIC Bishop J.O. Patterson Jr., First Black Mayor of Memphis, Dies at 76

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From the Commercial Appeal:

Bishop J.O. Patterson Jr., the prominent politician and clergyman who became the first African-American to occupy the office of mayor of Memphis, died Saturday afternoon. The 76-year-old bishop of the Church of God in Christ died at Methodist University Hospital from an unknown illness.

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