Posted on: June 6th, 2006
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“He will be the Conference’s first Hispanic president in more than two decades - since Mayor Hernan Padilla of San Juan, Puerto Rico, led the Conference from 1984 to 1985 - and Florida’s first since the early 1960s - when Jacksonville Mayor Haydon Burns was president.”
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