Wellington Webb
November 23, 1999, 1 p.m. ET

What the Presidential Candidates Should Be Discussing

On May 4, 1999, Wellington E. Webb was elected to serve his third term as mayor of the city and county of Denver. More than 80 percent of those who voted in the election chose Webb. He is Denver's 41st mayor and the city's first African-American mayor.

Mayor Webb's distinguished public service career began in 1972, when he was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives as a delegate from his boyhood neighborhood of northeast Denver. He currently serves as president of the United States Conference of Mayors.

Mayor Webb is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Brookings Institution's Center for Urban and Metropolitan Policy. He was selected by Newsweek in 1996 as one of the top 25 mayors in the nation. And for the past six years, he has been named by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 most influential African-Americans in the nation.