Michael Hancock (Colorado politician)
Michael B. Hancock is the 45th and current Mayor of Denver, Colorado. He was elected to the mayorship on July 18, 2011 after defeating Chris Romer in a runoff election on June 7, 2011. He is Denver’s second African American mayor after Wellington Webb. He has three children and is married to actress and vocalist Mary Louise Lee.
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Michael B. Hancock is the 45th and current Mayor of Denver, Colorado. He was elected to the mayorship on July 18, 2011 after defeating Chris Romer in a runoff election on June 7, 2011. He is Denver’s second African American mayor after Wellington Webb. Hancock and former Colorado State Senator Peter Groff co-wrote the book Standing in the Gap: Leadership for the 21st Century, published in 2004. During the 1986 Denver Broncos Super Bowl season, Hancock was the Broncos’s mascot \”Huddles\”, making USD 25 an hour. He and his twin sister are the youngest of ten children. Hancock started his career in the early 1990s, holding down two jobs at the Denver Housing Authority and the National Civic League. He joined the Metro Denver’s Urban League affiliate in 1995 as program director at a time when the economic-empowerment and civil rights organization was struggling.
In 2003, voters in northeast Denver’s 11th district elected him to the Denver City Council. His council peers unanimously chose him to serve two terms as President of theDenver City Council from 2006 to 2008. In 2012, Hancock visited the city of Reykjavík and met the Mayor of Iceland, Jón Gnarr, in Höfði. Hancock was named a 2014 Aspen Institute Rodel Fellow. He has three children and is married to actress and vocalist Mary Louise Lee. He serves as a deacon at the New Hope Baptist Church. In 2014, he was re-elected in 2014’s election to the Colorado Governor’s office to the two-term Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper for the office of Colorado’s governor. He went on to defeat Republican nominee Dan Maes and former U.S. Senator Tom Tancredo of the Constitution Party in a three-way race on November 2, 2014. In 2015, he won a third term in 2019.
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