Sterling Tucker
Sterling Tucker (born December 21, 1923, Akron, Ohio)[1] is an American civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C. In 1974, he was elected as a Democrat to be chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia in the first election after home rule was established, serving for one term.[2] He ran unsuccessfully for mayor in 1978 against the incumbent Walter Washington and at-large council member Marion Barry, who won in a landslide.[3]
In January 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Tucker to be Assistant Secretary for the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.[4]
An American Diabetes Association board member, he played a key role in the International Diabetes Federation partnership with the Pan American Health Organization, responding to pandemic type 2 diabetes: applying St. Vincent Declaration principles to the Declaration of the Americas on Diabetes (DOTA 1996).
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