The NAACP picked the youngest president in its history Saturday ?  Benjamin T. Jealous, a 35-year-old former newspaper editor and human rights activist.

The governing board of the Baltimore-based NAACP settled on Jealous as its 17th leader early Saturday morning after eight hours of contentious, closed-door debate.

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