Levar Marcus Stoney (born March 20, 1981) is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia and the 80th and current mayor of Richmond, Virginia. He served as the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2014 through 2016, becoming the first African American to serve in this role and the youngest member of Governor Terry McAuliffe's administration.Stoney was born in Long Island, New York, and when 7 years old moved with his younger brother to Virginia's Hampton Roads area. His parents never married; Stoney and his siblings were raised by their father (who supported the family via various low-wage jobs, and eventually became a high school janitor) and grandmother (a retired domestic worker). Wikipedia