Marion Barry Jr., 78, the Mississippi sharecropper's son and civil rights activist who served three terms as mayor of the District of Columbia, survived a drug arrest and jail sentence, and then came back to win a fourth term as the city's chief executive, died early Sunday at United Medical Center in Washington.
Marion Barry, 78, Former D.c. Mayor
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