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Amid reminders that he can play hardball, A C Wharton becomes Memphis’ new main man.

by Jackson Baker

Less than an hour before he was to take the oath as Memphis mayor in City Hall, and mere minutes after he had participated in the swearing-in ceremony for his temporary successor as county mayor, Joyce Avery, A C Wharton was standing near the dock of the auditorium in the county building, exchanging pleasantries with well-wishers. One such was a TV cameraman, who told Wharton that his family, like the mayor-elect’s, had come from the area around Lebanon, in Middle…

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