Portal:African American/Selected biography
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Ronald Vernie (Ron) Dellums (born November 24, 1935), U.S. Democratic Party politician, is the mayor of the City of Oakland, California. He was a U.S. Representative from California from 1971 until his resignation on February 6, 1998 and, following that, a lobbyist.
Dellums was the first African American elected to Congress from Northern California and the first openly socialist American Congressman since World War II.
