Mary Hawkins Butler, mayor of Madison, Miss., talks about her career and her intention to run for an 11th term at city hall on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. Butler, one of the longest-serving mayors in the country said, “I’ve always said that there’s only two ways I’ll go out of the mayor’s office and that will be a box, whether it’s a ballot box or a pine box,”
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Mary Hawkins Butler, one of the longest-serving mayors in the country, plans to run for her 11th term in office as mayor of Madison, Miss. “I’ve always said that there’s only two ways I’ll go out of the mayor’s office and that will be a box, whether it’s a ballot box or a pine box,” Butler said Monday, Dec. 11, 2023.
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Mary Hawkins Butler, mayor of Madison, Miss., talks about her career and her intention to run for an 11th term at city hall on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. Butler, one of the longest-serving mayors in the country said, “I’ve always said that there’s only two ways I’ll go out of the mayor’s office and that will be a box, whether it’s a ballot box or a pine box,”
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Mary Hawkins Butler, one of the longest serving mayors in the country, plans to run for her 11th term in office as mayor of Madison, Miss. Close at hand in city hall Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, Mayor Hawkins has scrapbooks filled with yellowed newspaper clippings tracing her career from antique dealer to alderman to mayor.
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Mary Hawkins Butler, mayor of Madison, Miss., talks about her career and her intention to run for an 11th term at city hall on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. Butler, one of the longest-serving mayors in the country said, “I’ve always said that there’s only two ways I’ll go out of the mayor’s office and that will be a box, whether it’s a ballot box or a pine box,”
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Madison, Miss., Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler flips through one of her scrapbooks at city hall on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. The scrapbooks trace her career from antique dealer to alderman to mayor.
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Scrapbooks with pages yellowed by time sit close at hand for Madison, Miss. Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler. Butler plans to run for her 11th term in office.
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Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler flips through a scrapbook in city hall in Madison, Miss., Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. Pausing on a page that holds a clipping of the words she wrote to voters during her first run for office, she combines her experience as an alderman with a call for a change of leadership.
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Madison, Miss., Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler flips through one of her scrapbooks at city hall on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. The scrapbooks trace her career from antique dealer to alderman to mayor.
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Mary Hawkins Butler, one of the longest-serving mayors in the country, plans to run for her 11th term in office as mayor of Madison, Miss. “I’ve always said that there’s only two ways I’ll go out of the mayor’s office and that will be a box, whether it’s a ballot box or a pine box,” Butler said Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, at city hall.
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