Sylvester Turner Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Early life== Turner was born on September 27, 1954, in [[Houston|Houston, Texas]], as the sixth of nine children, and was raised in the [[Acres Homes, Houston|Acres Homes]] community in northwest Houston by his father, a commercial painter, and his mother, a maid at the Rice Hotel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sylvesterturner.com/about/|website=Sylvester Turner for Mayor|access-date=July 14, 2015|title=About β Sylvester Turner}}</ref> He was senior class president and [[valedictorian]] at [[Klein High School]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Honorable Sylvester|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/honorable-sylvester-turner|website=The History Makers}}</ref> At the [[University of Houston]] he was Speaker of the Student Senate and graduated [[magna cum laude]] with a B.A. degree in political science.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rotaryhouston.org/stories/mayor-sylvester-turner|title=Mayor Sylvester Turner|access-date=December 18, 2023}}</ref> Turner was a finalist in the [[Ames Moot Court Competition]] while obtaining a J.D. degree from [[Harvard Law School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hls.harvard.edu/ames-moot-court/ames-moot-court-competition-archive/1979-ames-moot-court-competition/|title=1979 Ames Moot Court Competition|date=November 1, 1979|access-date=December 18, 2023}}</ref> He is a member of [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] fraternity.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Meeks|first1=Flori|title=Black fraternity has outreach, education as top priorities|url=http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/memorial-news/article/Black-fraternity-has-outreach-education-as-top-1649718.php|access-date=January 18, 2016|work=Houston Chronicle|date=August 2, 2006}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page