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Which famous Georgia politician began his career as a leader in the civil rights movement and was a close personal friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.?

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Andrew Jackson Young Jr. was born in 1932 and is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. He begin his career as a pastor, he was a friend to Martin Luther King Jr. Only later Young became active in politics, serving as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia, until he become mayor of Atlanta.
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