For four years, two different men have called themselves mayor of Newbern.
Patrick Braxton was the only candidate to qualify for mayor of Newbern, Alabama, in 2020, but he was locked out of the town hall. In 2024, a court settlement handed him back the keys to the town. Kyle Whitmire/AL.comPatrick Braxton, 57, the first Black mayor of Newbern, a rural town in Hale County, has been officially reinstated to his office after a four-year battle.
The town’s white residents treated elected offices as “hand me down” positions, according to the lawsuit. They simply appointed each other to roles of mayor and councilmembers. For decades. But according to the lawsuit, after he won the election, he never received access to manage the town’s finances, was barred from opening the municipal mailbox and was locked out of the town hall after the locks had been changed multiple times.
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