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A Night with Mayor Sylvester Turner

Season 1 Episode 38

A Night With Mayor Sylvester Turner explores the life and career of Mayor Turner — from his birth in the Acres Farms neighborhood to his education at the University of Houston and eventually Harvard Law School, to his law career and storied tenure in the Texas House of Representatives, and his bids for Houston’s mayoralty in 1991, 2003, and triumphantly in 2015.

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