Page was born in Orlando, the son of Arizona and Edoras Page, an
African Methodist Episcopal minister. He graduated from
Jones High School in 1960, earned a B.A. from
Morehouse College in 1964 and received a M.S. in mathematics from
Atlanta University and an M.B.A. from
Nova University. He was elected to City Council again in 1996, and won re-election in 2000 and 2004. In March 2005, he was serving as mayor
pro tem under Mayor Buddy Dyer when Dyer was indicted and jailed for electoral fraud. Following Dyer's removal, Page took office as interim mayor. He was interim mayor for about six weeks, until April 19, when the charges against Dyer were dropped and he was restored to office. On March 1, 2006, Councilman Page was arrested on charges of
political corruption while in the mayor's office. In September 2006 he was
convicted of
bribery and
official misconduct for threatening to stop a redevelopment proposal unless the prospective developer gave a piece of the project to a
nonprofit group with which Page was affiliated. He was subsequently
sentenced to 42 months in
prison. Following his sentencing in December 2006, Page was removed from city office by an executive order from Governor
Jeb Bush. Page appealed his conviction in
federal circuit court, but lost the appeal in March 2008. He entered prison in June 2008. He was released from prison in 2011 after serving about 3 years of his -year sentence. Most of his prison time was spent at
Marion Correctional Institution in
Marion County, Florida. ==References==