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Richard Arrington Jr. (born October 19 1934 in Livingston Alabama) was the first African American mayor of the city of Birmingham Alabama (U.S.) serving 20 years from 1979 to 1999. He replaced David Vann and upon retiring after five terms in office installed then-City Council president William A. Bell as interim mayor. Bell went on to lose the next election to Bernard Kincaid.