Douglas M. Wicks is a politician in Mobile County Alabama. Elected to the Mobile County Commission in 1980 he was the first African American to hold that position since Reconstruction. He would go on to be removed from office for ethics violations. His successor Sam Jones would go on to serve 18 years in office and was elected as the first African American mayor of Mobile in 2005.
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