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Posted by: Brittany Sims on Jan 30, 2015

Howard Gentry has decided to enter the Nashville mayor’s race, the Tennessean reports. Gentry, Nashville’s former vice mayor and current Davidson County Criminal Court clerk, confirmed late Thursday that he had appointed a treasurer that day to begin raising money for a mayoral run. It marks a return to the mayoral campaign circuit after coming up just 405 votes shy of making the runoff in the 2007 election, which Karl Dean ultimately won. Gentry enters the race as the lone African-American candidate in a field that had consisted of six candidates.