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The longest-serving mayor of Newark, Sharpe James, has died at age 89. James served a record five terms, 20 years, as mayor before he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to 27 months in prison.

Sharpe James, the charismatic, longest-serving mayor of Newark whose political accomplishments were marred by a corruption ...

Sharpe James began as a reformer. A fiery community organizer from Newark’s South Ward who was evangelistic about what good government should be and how it could be used to resuscitate his city, he ...