* J. Raymond Jones; New York Political Kingmaker
J. Raymond Jones, 91, the first black to run New York City’s Tammany Hall and a mentor to many of New York City’s most influential blacks. Jones, a political kingmaker known as the Harlem Fox, headed Tammany Hall--Manhattan’s powerful Democratic organization--from 1964 to 1967. He was believed to be the first black in the nation to serve as a Democratic county chairman. On June 9 in New York City.
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