Eugene, Eugene, Where are You Eugene?

We got a great selection of photographs of former Mount Vernon Mayors. Sadly, the pictures came with no information (the story of our lives). Today we met with longtime lawyer Bud Gilbert and got some great information about most of the former mayors. The one glaring exception was nothing about Mount Vernon’s perhaps most dapper mayor (and a personal favorite of ours from a visual standpoint), Eugene J. “Euge” Harris.

Who was this guy? What did he do? What was is administration like? We really wish we knew so we could come up with a caption for this gem of a photograph!