Malcolm Roderick Maclean
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Malcolm Roderick Maclean (September 14, 1919 – January 24, 2001) was a politician from Georgia, United States and was a former Mayor of Savannah. He was a Democrat and belonged to the local Citizen's Committee faction of the party.
Background
He was born in East Hampton, New York. He moved to Savannah, Georgia, with his family when he was young and graduated from Yale University in 1941 and Harvard Law School in 1948.{{cite web | url=https://www.huntermaclean.com/news/the-life-and-legacy-of-malcolm-maclean/ | title=The Life and Legacy of Malcolm Maclean }} He was married to Frances Ravenel Grimball, served in the U.S. Navy from 1941 to 1952 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander and was an attorney. He was a named partner in the Savannah Law Firm of Hunter, Maclean, Exley, & Dunn, now known as [http://www.huntermaclean.com/about-us/history/ HunterMaclean].
Political career
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Maclean succeeded Dr. Ellison Cook as a Council member in 1957 and became Mayor Pro Tem in 1958.
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After the resignation of incumbent Mayor Lee Mingledorff Jr. who decided to run for a seat on the Chatham County Commission in 1960, Maclean was selected by his peers to take over the Chief Executive's job. He then served the remainder of Mingledorff's term, which expired in 1962.Savannah Morning News, July 31, 1960
Maclean won re-election in 1962.Savannah Morning News, May 8, 1962 He continued Mingledorff's local programs of public road improvements.
During the Savannah Protest Movement, he worked with civil rights activists such as Westley Wallace Law and Eugene Gadsden and public facilities were integrated under his tenure.[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2553 Biography of W. W. Law, Georgia Encyclopedia]
In 1966, Maclean suffered a white backlash. Savannah voters, who had given Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater a majority in 1964, defeated Maclean and his slate. Republican businessman Julius Curtis Lewis Jr. succeeded Maclean as mayor.Savannah Morning News, August 3, 1966
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080206061934/http://www.ci.savannah.ga.us/cityweb/webdatabase.nsf/E12F5A82DA01561685256AB6006C3E62/3F6DC97D79C23C2D85256AB7004832F7 Mayor's official site]
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| before = Lee Mingledorff Jr., Democrat
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| after = Julius Curtis Lewis Jr., Republican
| title = Mayor of Savannah
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Category:20th-century mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state)
Category:Mayors of Savannah, Georgia
Category:Yale University alumni