E. Pat Larkins
Elijah Pat Larkins was the second African-American elected to the Pompano Beach City Commission (1982) and the first to serve as mayor. He was born in Pompano Beach in 1942, the oldest of nine children by farm-worker parents, and graduated from Blanche Ely High School in 1960.
In 2001 Larkins unsuccessfully sought election to the Broward County Commission, but reclaimed his city commission seat in the 2003 election. He resigned from the commission on May 8, 2008, due to ill health and passed away in 2009.
