Background
McKinney was born in 1923 in Albany, Georgia.
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Paul McKinney
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In 1941 he moved to Darby, Pennsylvania and became a Merchant Marine and eventually settled in Philadelphia in the late 1940s. Business In the 1960s he owned and operated a television sales and repair shop. In 1966 he became one Philadelphia"s first African American United States. Postal Service independent contractors.
Political McKinney served as a Democratic Party Committeeman and Ward Chairman of West Philadelphia"s 60th Ward for a number of years.
In 1974 he was elected as Pennsylvania"s the first African American state senator
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Political Party
Democratic party