Marshall B. Pitts Jr. (born?) are American lawyers and politicians. He served as Mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, for two periods from 2001 to 2005. Pitts is the first African-American mayor of the city.
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Biography
Pitts attended Westover High School in Fayetteville, where he became a member of the school track team. He graduated from North Carolina Central University Law School in 1990.
Political career
Pitts first ran to sit on the Fayetteville City Council in 1997, but lost the election with just 66 votes. However, he held a comeback and won the city council election in the big seat in 1999, becoming the first African-American to be elected to the city council in twenty years.
In 2001, Pitts ran for Mayor of Fayetteville against the mighty Milo McBryde Mayor. McBryde, a third-generation member of the prominent Fayetteville political family, had served on the city council for twenty-two years at the city council at the time. McBryde was appointed Mayor of Fayetteville in August 2000 after the death of the old Mayor J.L. Dawkins, who died at the office. The Pitts' 2001 campaign slogan is "Change Is Coming."
Pitts defeated McBryde in the mayoral elections held on November 6, 2001. He gained about 56% of the vote (11,405 votes), while Mayor McBryde came second with 44% (8,979 votes). Pitts was sworn into office on December 3, 2001, becoming the first African-American mayor in the city. He was re-elected for a second term in the mayoral elections held on November 4, 2003. Pitts easily defeated his opponent, the real estate agent Robert Anderson, on a 2003 runoff. The Pitts' 2003 slogan is "Change Now."
Under the second term Pitts, the adjacent Cumberland County region of North Carolina, annexed to Fayetteville, adds some 43,000 new residents to the city's population.
Pitts was defeated for re-election on November 8, 2005, by Tony Chavonne. Chavonne received about 55% of the vote in 2005. The new regional annexation to Fayetteville seems to play an important role in the election. Chavonne greatly defeated Pitts in the newly annexed city area.
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