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===Resignation===

===Resignation===

Unable to work with the city council, Deslatte resigned as mayor after less than two years into his term. He said that the political pressure was too much to make the job worth keeping. The council then appointed [[African-American]] council member Clarence Fields as interim mayor.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', December 10, 1999.</ref> The first black mayor of Pineville, a once segregated city, Fields was then elected to a partial term in 2000, when he defeated former city council member George Earl Hearn (1926-2010), a [[psychology]] [[professor]] at Baptist-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in Pineville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10072000/10072000_40.html|title=Election Results|date=October 7, 2000|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Baden first announced that he would oppose Fields for the partial term in 2000 but subsequently withdrew from consideration, Fields thereafter won a full term in 2002, and he was reelected without opposition in 2006, 2010, and 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20140215/NEWS01/302150025/Pineville-Mayor-Fields-once-again-re-elected-without-opposition|title=Pineville Mayor Fields once again re-elected without opposition|author=Jeff Matthews|date=February 15, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Deslatte had the shortest tenure as mayor since Mike Aaron from 1912 to 1913.<ref>Karen Dauzat, List of Pineville Mayors since 1867, Pineville City Hall</ref>

Unable to work with the city council, Deslatte resigned as mayor after less than two years into his term. He said that the political pressure was too much to make the job worth keeping. The council then appointed [[African-American]] council member Clarence Fields as interim mayor.<ref>''The Alexandria Town Talk'', December 10, 1999.</ref> The first black mayor of Pineville, a once segregated city, Fields was then elected to a partial term in 2000, when he defeated former city council member [[George Hearn]], a [[psychology]] [[professor]] at Baptist-affiliated [[Louisiana College]] in Pineville.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10072000/10072000_40.html|title=Election Results|date=October 7, 2000|publisher=Louisiana Secretary of State|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Baden first announced that he would oppose Fields for the partial term in 2000 but subsequently withdrew from consideration, Fields thereafter won a full term in 2002, and he was reelected without opposition in 2006, 2010, and 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.thetowntalk.com/article/20140215/NEWS01/302150025/Pineville-Mayor-Fields-once-again-re-elected-without-opposition|title=Pineville Mayor Fields once again re-elected without opposition|author=Jeff Matthews|date=February 15, 2015|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=July 17, 2015}}</ref> Deslatte had the shortest tenure as mayor since Mike Aaron from 1912 to 1913.<ref>Karen Dauzat, List of Pineville Mayors since 1867, Pineville City Hall</ref>

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