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George Latimer, St. Paul’s longest serving mayor, who oversaw rapid change for the city, dies at 89
As the longest serving mayor of St. Paul, George Latimer publicly embraced the social aspects of his job as much as the political ones, becoming so synonymous with the capital city’s downtown institutions that the Central Library by Rice Park was renamed …