Freman Hendrix
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Freman Hendrix Is a two-time mayoral candidate in the city of Detroit, running in 2005 and for the 2009 special election
Detroit mayoral election, 2009
The Detroit mayoral elections of 2009 took place on May 5, 2009, with a primary on February 24, 2009 to fill the vacancy created when Kwame Kilpatrick resigned as Mayor....

 to replace former political foe Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being charged with ten felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice...

. The son of an African-American Army veteran, Emmanuel Freman Hendrix and an Austria
Austria
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n-born woman, Rudolfine Ernegger, he was Deputy Mayor for former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer
Dennis Archer
Dennis Wayne Archer is an American lawyer and politician from Michigan. A Democrat, Archer served on the Michigan Supreme Court and as mayor of Detroit...

.

He lost to incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being charged with ten felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice...

 in the November 8, 2005 election. In the August 2 primary election Hendrix outpolled Kilpatrick by a comfortable margin, with Kilpatrick coming in a solid second. On November 9, 2005 Freman Hendrix lost the election by 47% to 53%.

It has also been stated by fans that Freeman Hendrix is related to rapper and singer Andrew Canton from Canton, MI.

History

Hendrix managed a successful mayoral campaign for Dennis Archer in 1994, and worked for Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

's Presidential campaign in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. Hendrix served the administration of former Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara for three years.

He graduated from Inkster High School and has a bachelor's degree in business administration from Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University
Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...

. Hendrix is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin...

 fraternity, and was initiated into the Delta Nu chapter at Eastern Michigan University.

He is the former chief of staff and deputy mayor of Detroit under former Mayor Dennis Archer
Dennis Archer
Dennis Wayne Archer is an American lawyer and politician from Michigan. A Democrat, Archer served on the Michigan Supreme Court and as mayor of Detroit...

; former chairman of the appointed Detroit School Board; former assistant Wayne County executive; former chief operating officer of Strategic Staffing Solutions.

Freman Hendrix joined EMU in August 2006 as chief government relations officer to focus on strengthening relationships with legislators in Lansing and Washington, D.C. He has served in many public and private-sector roles, including assistant Wayne County executive; chairman, Detroit Public Schools’ Board of Education; and deputy mayor, city of Detroit. He received his bachelor of business administration degree from EMU in 1982.

2005 Campaign

The city's major daily papers, the Detroit News as well as The Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep"...

, endorsed Hendrix. The alternative weekly, Metro Times
Metro Times
The Metro Times is the largest circulating weekly newspaper in the metro Detroit area. Supported entirely by advertising, it is distributed free of charge every Wednesday in newsstands in businesses and libraries around the city and suburbs...

, somewhat reluctantly endorsed Hendrix. Its editors deem Hendrix "has served the public without the taint of scandal, although soiled somewhat by his associations," and claims that as Archer's deputy, Hendrix bears some responsibility for the problems of the city that were still unsolved at the end of Archer's term. Interviewers from The South End
The South End
----The South End is the official student newspaper of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, published in print and online. It was founded in 1967, and its publication is funded partly from university funds and partly from advertising revenues, and is distributed free of charge.The paper is...

asked Hendrix if he would consider a partnership of the city with the colleges of Detroit, to which he answered, "The short answer to that is yes, of course."

Electoral history

  • 2009 Election for Charter Revision Commission (Detroit)
    • Freman Hendrix (D), 11%
    • Teola P. Hunter (D), 8%
    • Ken Coleman (D), 8%
    • Jenice Mitchell Ford (D), 7%
    • Reggie Reg Davis (D), 6%
    • Rose Mary C. Robinson (D), 6%
    • Ken Harris (D), 6%
    • John Johnson (D), 6%
    • Cara J. Blount (D), 5%
  • 2008 Special Election for Mayor (Detroit) (Primary Election)
    • Dave Bing
      Dave Bing
      David "Dave" Bing is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan, a businessman, and a retired American professional basketball player who played 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association , primarily for the Detroit Pistons...

       (D), 28.82%
    • Kenneth Cockrel, Jr (D), 27.00%
    • Freman Hendrix (D), 23.21%
    • Warren Evans (D), 10.06%
    • Coleman A. Young, Jr. (D), 4.10%
  • 2005 Race for Mayor (Detroit)
    • Kwame Kilpatrick
      Kwame Kilpatrick
      Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being charged with ten felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice...

       (D), 53%
    • Freman Hendrix (D), 47%
  • 2005 Race for Mayor (Detroit) (Primary Election)
    • Freman Hendrix (D), 45%
    • Kwame Kilpatrick
      Kwame Kilpatrick
      Kwame Malik Kilpatrick is a former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. Kilpatrick's mayorship was plagued by numerous scandals and rampant accusations of corruption, with the mayor eventually resigning after being charged with ten felony counts, including perjury and obstruction of justice...

       (D), 34%
    • Sharon McPhail
      Sharon McPhail
      Sharon McPhail was the general counsel for the City of Detroit. McPhail served on the Detroit City Council from 2002 until 2006. McPhail was a candidate for mayor in the 1993 and 2005 Detroit elections...

       (D), 12%
    • Hansen Clarke
      Hansen Clarke
      Hansen Hashim Clarke is the U.S. Representative for . Clarke, a Democrat, was a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1991 through 1992, and from 1999 through 2002. He then served in the Michigan Senate, representing the 1st District from January 1, 2003 to January 3, 2011. Clarke...

       (D), 8%


After a successful campaign by incumbent Kwame Kilpatrick, in which commercials that exposed Hendrix support of a state takeover of the Detroit Public Schools were run, Hendrix lost support throughout the Detroit Community.

2009 Campaign

Freman Hendrix officially announced a second formal campaign for mayor of Detroit at the EMU Student Government meeting on October 7, 2008. After an inquiry by Student Body Vice-President and Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu is an undergraduate, college fraternity with chapters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia...

Candidate Robert Philip Kull about his plans, Hendrix revealed his plans as a way of pushing for "honesty, transparency, and accountability".2 Others who have announced their candidacy are Ken Cockrel Jr., Sharon McPhail, Coleman Young, Jr., Nicholas Hood III and Dave Bing. Hendrix ultimately came in third place in the Detroit primary behind Cockrel and Bing.

On the August 4, 2009 primary, Hendrix received 11% of 46,363 votes for charter commission, the top vote getter.

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