A.C. Wharton: Born and raised in Lebanon, Wharton was elected as the first Black mayor of Shelby County in 2002 and was re-elected in 2006. Wharton was then elected mayor of Memphis in 2009 and ...

Wharton was then elected mayor of Memphis in 2009 and was re-elected in 2011. His father A.C. Wharton Sr., was well-known in the community as the operator of a grocery store he began in the 1940s.

A portrait of former Mayor A C Wharton was unveiled today at City Hall, joining the 62 mayoral portraits in the Hall of Mayors. City officials, judges, past mayors, and members of the community ...

A.C. Wharton discusses the protests across the country following the death of George Floyd, as well as the toll the coronavirus pandemic has taken in his community and the country.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Voters overwhelmingly re-elected Memphis mayor A C Wharton over nine rivals Thursday, giving the Democrat a hefty mandate to continue another four years after a short ...

Mayor A C Wharton is fed up with blight and his administration is going after the people responsible. "They're not living here, they're living away somewhere else and that's who we're coming after ...

Remember that part of Wharton's strength in running for County Mayor is that Republicans crossed over to vote for him, and there aren't as many of them in the City as the County, to be sure.

Fullilove won over Nichols and two other opponents by a comfortable 57.83 percent margin.Another Wharton endorsee, University of Memphis law professor Lee Harris, ran neck-to-neck in District 7 ...