Gerry Cohen, a lawyer for the North Carolina General Assembly's legislative drafting division, is a former member of the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen (now the Chapel Hill Town Council). Cohen was elected in 1973 on the strength of an upsurge in youth voting brought about in part by the war in Vietnam and the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He was a law student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the time. Cohen was a significant political figure in Chapel Hill throughout the 1970s, helping to establish the town's public transportation system, Chapel Hill Transit.
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