RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Henry Marsh, Richmond’s first Black mayor who died Thursday, is being remembered as a “trailblazer,” “extraordinary individual” and a “true statesman.” ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Henry Marsh, a longtime Virginia lawmaker and first Black mayor of Richmond, has died. Marsh, 91, served Richmond as a senator in the Virginia General Assembly from 1992 thru 2014.

Courtesy of Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School. Henry L. Marsh III Elementary School was dedicated in Richmond in August 2020. Marsh, a civil rights attorney, longtime Virginia Senator and the ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Richmond’s first African American mayor, Henry Marsh, has died. According to a statement from Richmond’s NAACP, Marsh died Thursday at the age of 91. Born and raised in ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond said its final goodbye today to one of its most influential leaders, Henry Marsh III, the city’s first Black mayor and a dedicated civil rights attorney.

“Henry Marsh was a friend, mentor, and role model. He played an important role in my public service career, for which I will be forever grateful. His life was a testament to the power of ...

The death of former president Jimmy Carter in late December compelled Willie Dell to reach out to her old friend Henry L. Marsh III. She’d met Marsh in 1973, when he and fellow Richmond City ...

Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and long-serving Virginia state senator who in 1977 became the first Black mayor of Richmond, ushering in an era of African American leadership in the ...

Marsh, born and raised in Richmond, had an elementary school named after him in 2020. Henry Marsh III, the first Black Mayor of Richmond, Virginia, died on Jan. 23. Following his death ...