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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 14, 2022

Newly elected Hamilton County Mayor Weston Wamp has asked longtime County Attorney Rheubin Taylor to resign, Chattanoogan.com reports. Taylor, who is 73 and has been in the post for 28 years, declined to step down, saying he has two years remaining on his current contract and wants to stay. Wamp also had asked Taylor to hire former General Sessions Court Judge Gerald Webb, which Taylor also declined to do. Webb, who was the first African-American judge on the county General Sessions Court, lost his post in the August election to Larry Ables, a former public defender, prosecutor and chief magistrate. Wamp is said to prefer Webb for the county attorney role.