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Where have all the mayors gone?
Austin is learning a lot about its past from the passing of its mayors.
Jeffrey Friedman, 1975-77, died in 2007
Roy Butler, 1971-75, died last week
Travis LaRue, 1969-71, died this week
Two almost-mayors died fairly recently, too.
Lowell Lebermann, lost a run-off to Ron Mullen in 1983, died earlier this year
Robert Barnstone, lost a run-off to Bruce Todd in 1991, died last year
Each of their obituaries taught me something about Austin I didn’t know. Future generations will appreciate that all of this history is available through simple Internet searches. Try it.
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