Mayor john marks biography definition

John Robert Marks III (born July 25, 1947) is an Americanlawyer, politician, and former Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida from February 2003 until November 2014. Marks is the longest serving mayor in Tallahassee's history.^[1] He was elected to three consecutive terms as the city's Mayor, spanning nearly twelve years.^[1] He won a third term in 2010, but declined to seek re-election for a fourth term in 2014.

He was succeeded by Andrew Gillum on November 21, 2014.^[2]

Marks was Tallahassee's fifth African-American mayor but the first to be elected.

Biography

Marks' great-grandfather, Oliver Lewis Coleman, founded Coleman College, a now defunct historically black in Gibsland, Louisiana, in 1887.^[2] Coleman College closed in 1952.^[2]

He received his B.S.

degree in 1969 from the Florida State University School of Business and his Juris Doctorate in 1972 from the Florida State University College of Law. He and his wife, Jane, have a son, John Marks IV (born