We Salute Mayor Bernard Kincaid:

Kincaid was vice-president and later president of the Ensley HIghlands Neighborhood Association and vice-president of the Five Points West community. He ran against Roosevelt Bell in the 1993 Birmingham City Council election, losing by 31 votes. That same year, Kincaid lost a special Democratic Party election for Alabama House District 60, trailing by 15 votes against John Hilliard. In 1997 he was elected to represent District 8 in the Birmingham City Council. He ran for Mayor in the 1999 Birmingham mayoral election, barely making a runoff with interim-Mayor William Bell, and then upsetting him in a monumental defeat of Arrington’s Citizens Coalition. As mayor, Kincaid earned a reputation as a serious, hard-working, detail-oriented administrator.