ABOUT ROBERT C. HENRY
Politician and Democrat who was mayor of Springfield, Ohio from 1966 to 1968. He was notably the first African American mayor of an American city.
He attended Wittenberg University in Springfield.
He owned and operated a funeral home while he was in politics.
He had three children with Betty Jane Scott.
After finishing his term as mayor he was selected as a member of a fact-finding commission to Vietnam by Lyndon B. Johnson .
