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Adrian Fenty

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Adrian M. Fenty (b. December 7, 1970) is the mayor-elect of Washington, D.C. and is currently serving his second term as a councilmember representing Ward 4 on the Council of the District of Columbia. On November 7, 2006 Fenty won the 2006 Washington mayoral election [1] and will be the youngest person ever to hold that office.

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[edit] Early life, education, and family

Fenty was raised in a rowhouse in the Washington, D.C., neighborhood of Mount Pleasant. He and his wife Michelle have twin sons, Matthew and Andrew. He was educated at Oberlin College, earning a B.A. in English and Economics, and earned a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law.[2] Fenty is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.[3] Fenty's parents own Fleet Feet [4], an athletic shoe store in the D.C. neighborhood of Adams Morgan. Fenty comes from a biracial background; his mother is white and his father is black.[5]

[edit] Political career

Fenty was an intern for Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH), Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-MA), before becoming involved in local politics. He served as ANC 4C commissioner and treasurer, as well as president of the 16th Street Neighborhood Civic Association.

In 2000, Fenty was elected to the Washington, D.C. City Council, unseating longtime Ward 4 council member Charlene Drew Jarvis and becoming the youngest member to serve up to that time. He was reelected in 2004. In 2005, he announced his candidacy for mayor.

As a council member, Fenty was noted for his attention to constituent services; his opposition to Mayor Anthony A. Williams' eventually successful efforts to close D.C. General, the city's only public hospital; to public funding for a baseball stadium in the city; and his proposal to fund a $1 billion capital improvement program for public schools, which, in different form, the Council subsequently passed. [6] During the primary mayoral campaign, Fenty was criticized by some for keeping as his campaign's field coordinator Sinclair Skinner, whom some characterized as a racially divisive figure, a charge Fenty's supporters dismissed.[citation needed].

[edit] 2006 mayoral campaign

Main article: 2006 Washington, D.C. mayoral election

Fenty chose to run for mayor of Washington, D.C., in 2005, and received the endorsement of the Washington Post. His youth and energetic, personal political style set him apart from his chief opponent Linda Cropp, who has been involved in city politics for 25 years.[citation needed] Cropp, who currently serves as City Council chair, received an estimated 31 percent of the vote. Fenty received approximately 57 percent of the vote. Fenty went on the win the general election easily receiving 90 percent of the vote in a heavily Democratic city[7] and will become the capital's sixth elected mayor since the establishment of home rule. Fenty will also become the youngest person ever elected mayor of the District [citation needed], and only the second to be a native Washingtonian (after Sharon Pratt Kelly).[citation needed]

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