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On September 16, 1969, Seattle voters reject blatant "law and order" candidates to nominate liberal Democrat Wes Uhlman and progressive Republican Mort Frayn for mayor.

Sources:

Walt Crowley, Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle (Seattle; University of Washington Press, 1995), 274.

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