State Sen. Coleman A. Young II says he will run for Detroit's mayor -- a job his father held for 20 years.
Young, a Democrat, made the announcement Friday in Detroit. Incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan already announced he is seeking re-election to a second four-year term.
Coleman A. Young was elected in 1973 as Detroit's first black mayor. He held the office through 1993 when he decided not to seek re-election and died in 1997.
The 34-year-old Coleman A. Young II has been a state representative and was elected in 2010 to the Michigan Senate. He unsuccessfully ran in a 2009 special mayoral primary election to complete the second term of convicted ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The filing deadline for the August 2017 primary is April 25.
