Mattie Chapman scored a number of first during her long career in York County public service. Background posts: Thomas Chatman Jr., pioneering police chief: 'I thank God and the citizens of York for the opportunity to serve them' and First York City Latino councilman temporarily state's top appointed Dem and Pioneers Kim Bracey, Chuck Patterson vying for elected office.
York County voters elected Mattie Chapman to the office of prothonotary in 1975.
She became York County's first black elected county official.
Nineteen years earlier, she had become the first black person to even work in a county office when she became a clerk in the prothonotary's office.
Tuesday's primary election saw several black candidates cue up to become firsts... .
