Sterling Tucker

Sterling Tucker (born December 21, 1923, Akron, Ohio)cite web
title=Sterling Tucker Biography
publisher=The HistoryMakers
url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=864
accessdate=2008-07-28] is a civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C. In 1974, he was elected as a Democrat to be chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia in the first election after home rule was established, serving for one term.cite web
title=Historical Elected Officials: Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia
author=District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics
accessdate=2008-07-28
url=http://www.dcboee.org/information/eo_index/history/CHAIRMAN.shtm] He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1978 against the incumbent Walter Washington and at-large council member Marion Barry, who won in a landslide.cite news
title=Mayor, Sterling Tucker Deprecate Landslide Victory by Marion Barry
first=Stephen J.
last=Lynton
coauthors=Bowman, LaBarbara
work=The Washington Post
page=D1
date=1976-09-16
url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost_historical/access/120026580.html?FMT=ABS
accessdate=2008-08-02]

In January 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Tucker to be Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. [cite web
title=Jimmy Carter: Department of Housing and Urban Development Nomination of Sterling Tucker To Be an Assistant Secretary
date=1979-01-18
work=The American Presidency Project
publisher=University of California, Santa Barbara
url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=32346
accessdate=2008-08-02]

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*cite news
title=D.C. & the Vote: He Keeps the Faith
last=Duke
first=Lynne
work=The Washington Post
date=2007-04-20
page=C01
url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041902728.html
accessdate=2008-07-28

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title=Chairman of the nowrap|Council of the District of Columbia
years=1975 – 1979