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Posted by: Kate Prince on Aug 30, 2022

Memphis attorney and Shelby County Commissioner Van Turner is expected to announce on Thursday that he is running for Memphis mayor in 2023, the Daily Memphian reports. The announcement will take place at Health Sciences Park, which was sold to Memphis Greenspace Inc., a nonprofit headed by Turner, in 2017. The organization then had a monument of Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest removed from the grounds. Turner was also instrumental in the removal of the remains of Forrest and his wife from beneath the monument last year. Turner’s second term as commissioner will conclude on Wednesday. He is the first to announce a campaign in what is expected to be a crowded field of contenders to succeed Mayor Jim Strickland, who is terming out.