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Mayor
"Mayor" (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater") is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government.
In many systems, the mayor is an elected politician who serves as chief executive officer and/or ceremonial official of many types of municipalities....
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Frank Murphy
William Francis (Frank) Murphy (April 13, 1890 – July 19, 1949) was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District (1920-23), Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit (1923-30). Mayor of...
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- May 1933
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- 1930
John F. Street
John Franklin Street (born October 15, 1943) was the 97th Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. He was first elected to a term beginning on January 3, 2000, and was re-elected to a second term beginning in 2004. He is a Democrat and became mayor after...
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- 2000
Harry G. Haskell, Jr.
Harry Garner Haskell, Jr. (born May 27, 1921) is an American businessman and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a member of the Republican Party, who served as U.S. Representative from Delaware.
Haskell was born in...
Giles McCrary
Giles Connell McCrary, Sr. (born November 5, 1919), is a self-employed oil operator, investor, art collector, rancher, and the owner of the OS Ranch Museum in Post, the seat of Garza County, southeast of Lubbock on the Texas South Plains. A strong...
Dennis Freeman
Harold Dennis Freeman, known as Dennis Freeman (April 23, 1940 - November 23, 2007), was from 1984 until his death the mayor of historic Logansport, a town adjacent to the Sabine River in De Soto Parish in northwestern Louisiana. His contributions...
Jill Didier
Jill Didier is an American politician and the current mayor of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. After being elected in 2006, she served as alderwoman for two years. She resigned her seat after being elected mayor on April 1, 2008. She was sworn into office on...
Michèle Alliot-Marie
Michèle Alliot-Marie is France’s Minister of the interior and overseas territories, France's first woman in this position. She is also the first woman to lead Rally for the Republic, a major French political party and the first female...
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- 2002
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- 1992
Michael Sessions
Michael Sessions (born September 22, 1987) is the mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan, a city of about 8200 people. He was elected November 8, 2005. He was sworn into office on November 21. Elected at the age of 18, he is among the youngest mayors in...
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Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin (pronounced /ˈpeɪlɨn/ ( listen); née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the...
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- 2002
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- 1996
William Barnet III
William Barnet III has been President and CEO of William Barnet & Son., Inc., a synthetic fiber processing business, since 1976.
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- Jan 2002
Richard H. Bagger
Rich Bagger heads Worldwide Public Affairs and Policy for Pfizer, with responsibility for public policy, government relations, international public affairs, corporate responsibility, philanthropy and stakeholder advocacy.
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Coleman Young
Coleman Alexander Young (May 24, 1918 – November 29, 1997) served as mayor of Detroit in the U.S. state of Michigan from 1974 to 1993. Young was Detroit's first black mayor.
Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Coleman Young, a dry cleaner, and...
Lionel J. Wilson
Lionel J. Wilson (ca. 1915–February 23, 1998) was an African American political figure. He was the first African American mayor of Oakland, California, serving three-terms as mayor of Oakland from 1978 until 1990.
He lost the 1990 mayorial election...
Ron Dellums
Ronald Vernie "Ron" Dellums (born November 24, 1935 in Oakland, California) serves as Oakland's forty-fifth (and third African-American) mayor. From 1971-1998, he was elected to thirteen terms as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from...
Kwame Kilpatrick
Kwame Kilpatrick (born June 8, 1970) is the former mayor of Detroit, Michigan. When elected at the age of 31, he was the youngest mayor in the history of Detroit.
Kilpatrick attended Detroit's Cass Technical High School. Kilpatrick then graduated...
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- 2008
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William Holt
William Holt (1737–1791) was a Colonial American mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1776 to 1777 and again from 1782 to 1783.
Holt was born in Virginia the son of David and Margaret Holt. His brother John Holt also was mayor of Williamsburg. He...
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- 1777
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- 1776
William Holt
William Holt (1737–1791) was a Colonial American mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1776 to 1777 and again from 1782 to 1783.
Holt was born in Virginia the son of David and Margaret Holt. His brother John Holt also was mayor of Williamsburg. He...
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- 1783
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- 1782
Sam Sullivan
Sam Sullivan, CM (born 1959) is a former mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sam Sullivan was born in 1959 to East Vancouver residents Lloyd and Ida Sullivan. His father ran Sully's Autoparts on East Hastings Street. He has brothers, Terry...
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- Nov 15, 2008
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John Darragh
John Darragh (1772 – May 13, 1828) was a U.S. politician. He served as the Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1817 to 1825.
Darragh was born in Ireland and early in life immigrated to Pittsburgh. He began his career as a merchant on Fourth Avenue between Wood...
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- 1825
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- 1817
Gregor Robertson
Gregor Robertson is a Canadian politician, currently the Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia. He was elected as part of the Vision Vancouver party slate. He previously served as a MLA for Vancouver-Fairview, as a member of the New Democratic Party...
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- Nov 15, 2008
Enrique Peñalosa
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño is a Colombian politician, former mayor of Bogotá, from 1998 until 2001. He was a runner-up for a second term on October 2007. He currently works as a consultant on urban vision and strategy and gives conferences around the...
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- 2001
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- 1998
E. B. Farnum
Ethan Bennett Farnum (November 10, 1826, Cheshire, Massachusetts – c. 1878) was one of the first residents of Deadwood, South Dakota, who was not a miner or prospector; he was the owner of a general store. Farnum was married to Mary Farnum with...
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Carole Keeton Strayhorn
Carole Keeton Strayhorn (formerly McClellan, then Rylander) (born September 13, 1939) is the former Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Elected to the comptroller's post in 1998 as a Republican, Strayhorn ran as an independent candidate for Texas...
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- 1983
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- 1977
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain and the first female mayor in England.
Garrett was born in 1836 at 1...
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- Nov 9, 1908
Newson Garrett
Newson Garrett (July 31, 1812 - May 4, 1893), was a maltster and brewer instrumental in the revival of the town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, of which he became mayor at the end of his life. Two of his six daughters became famous as women's rights...
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Albert H. Wheeler
Albert H. Wheeler (1915-April 4, 1994) was an American life-sciences professor and politician in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He became the city's first African-American mayor, serving in the office from 1975 to 1978.
Wheeler was raised in St. Louis,...
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Charles Hoodenpyl
Charles Hoodenpyl (1904 - 1986) was mayor of Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Charles Hoodenpyl would serve as the mayor of Jeffersonville in 1952 until 1963 as the last part time mayor before being replaced by Richard Vissing. Hoodenpyl was mayor during...
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Néstor Kirchner
Néstor Carlos Kirchner (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnehtoɾ ˈkaɾlos ˈki(ɾ)ʃneɾ] born February 25, 1950) was the President of Argentina from May 25, 2003 until December 10, 2007. A Justicialist, Kirchner was previously governor of the province of Santa...
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Dave Bing
David "Dave" Bing (born November 24, 1943, in Washington, D.C.) is the mayor of Detroit, Michigan, a businessman, and a retired American professional basketball player who played 12 seasons in the NBA, primarily for the Detroit Pistons (1966-75). He...
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- May 2009
Andrew Morris
Andrew Morris, Mayor of Galway, September 1588 to September 1589.
Morris had served as a bailiff for Galway Corporation in 1565. His single term of office occoured during the Spanish Armada. Some two hundred Spanish sailors were imprisoned in the...
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- Sep 1589
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- Sep 1588
Klaus Wowereit
Klaus Wowereit (born 1 October 1953 in West Berlin) is a German politician, member of the SPD (Social Democratic Party), and has been the Mayor of Berlin since the 2001 state elections, where he won a plurality of the votes, 29.7%. He served as...
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- 2001
Susan Fennell
Susan Fennell is the current mayor of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Susan Fennell was also the Founder and Commissioner of the National Women's Hockey League .
Susan Fennell was born in Saint-Laurent, a borough of Montreal, Quebec. She completed an...
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Matthew McCauley
Matthew McCauley (July 11, 1850 – October 25, 1930) was the first mayor of the city of Edmonton, and a member of the legislative assemblies of both the Northwest Territories and Alberta.
McCauley was born July 11, 1850 in Owen Sound, Ontario, and...
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- Jan 14, 1895
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- Feb 10, 1892
Herbert Charles Wilson
Herbert Charles Wilson (December 7, 1859 – December 17, 1909) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, mayor of Edmonton, and presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Wilson was born in Picton, Ontario on December 7,...
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- Jan 14, 1895
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- Feb 10, 1892
Cornelius Gallagher
Cornelius Gallagher (December 31, 1854 – 1932) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor and mayor of Edmonton.
Gallagher was born December 31, 1854 in Saint John, New Brunswick and, as a young adult, went into the meat business...
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- Dec 14, 1896
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- Jan 14, 1895
John Alexander McDougall
John Alexander McDougall (May 20, 1854 – December 17, 1928) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a municipal councillor and mayor in Edmonton, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
John Alexander McDougall was born May 20, 1854 in...
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- Dec 13, 1897
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- Dec 14, 1896
William S. Edmiston
William Sommerville Edmiston (1855 – July 24, 1903) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton.
Edmiston came to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland in 1882, and settled in Clover Bar, Alberta. He moved to Edmonton in 1895, and became the...
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- Dec 11, 1899
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- Dec 13, 1897
Kenneth W. MacKenzie
Kenneth W. MacKenzie (February 3, 1862 – October 9, 1929) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a two-time mayor of Edmonton.
MacKenzie was born on a farm near Lucknow, Ontario on February 3, 1862. He left school during his early teens, but...
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- Dec 9, 1901
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- Dec 11, 1899
William Short
William Short (1759–1849) was Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789. Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, referred to Short as his "adoptive son". Short, along with Jefferson,...
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- Dec 12, 1904
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- Dec 9, 1901
Kenneth W. MacKenzie
Kenneth W. MacKenzie (February 3, 1862 – October 9, 1929) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a two-time mayor of Edmonton.
MacKenzie was born on a farm near Lucknow, Ontario on February 3, 1862. He left school during his early teens, but...
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- Dec 11, 1905
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- Dec 12, 1904
Charles May
Charles May (June 30, 1858 – 1932) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a mayor of Edmonton
May was born in Wellington County, Ontario on June 30, 1858. He left school in 1880 and moved to Manitoba to homestead. He later spent thirteen years as a...
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- Dec 10, 1906
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- Dec 11, 1905
William Antrobus Griesbach
Major General William Antrobus Griesbach CB CMG DSO (3 January 1878 - 21 January 1945) was a Canadian politician, decorated soldier, mayor of Edmonton, and member of the Canadian House of Commons and Senate of Canada.
Griesbach was born in Fort Qu...
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- Dec 9, 1907
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- Dec 10, 1906
John Alexander McDougall
John Alexander McDougall (May 20, 1854 – December 17, 1928) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a municipal councillor and mayor in Edmonton, and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
John Alexander McDougall was born May 20, 1854 in...
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- Dec 14, 1908
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- Dec 9, 1907
Robert Lee
Robert Lee (March 10, 1862 – August 5, 1925) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton.
Lee was born in Lanark County, Ontario on March 10, 1862 and graduated from the Dominion Business College in Kingston. He married...
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- Dec 12, 1910
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- Dec 14, 1908
George S. Armstrong
George Seale Armstrong (1867 – June 9, 1947) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton.
Armstrong was born in Hopeville, Grey County, Ontario. He came to Edmonton in 1905 or 1906, and ran for Edmonton City Council as an...
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- Dec 9, 1912
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- Dec 12, 1910
William Short
William Short (1759–1849) was Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when he was ambassador in Paris, from 1786 to 1789. Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, referred to Short as his "adoptive son". Short, along with Jefferson,...
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- Dec 8, 1913
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- Dec 9, 1912
William McNamara
William J. McNamara (born December 27, 1879 – 1932) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of both Edmonton and Wetaskiwin, Alberta, and the first mayor of Edmonton to be forced from office over a scandal.
McNamara was born in Renfrew, Ontario...
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- Oct 27, 1914
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- Dec 8, 1913
William Thomas Henry
William Thomas Henry (January 2, 1872 – September 11, 1952) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and a mayor of Edmonton.
Henry was born in Prince Edward Island January 2, 1872. He moved to Calgary,...
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- Dec 10, 1917
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- Dec 14, 1914
Harry Marshall Erskine Evans
Henry "Harry" Marshall Erskine Evans (August 17, 1876 – September 20, 1973) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a former mayor of Edmonton.
Harry Evans was born August 17, 1876 in Davenport, Ontario (which is now part of Toronto) to the Rev. and...
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- Dec 9, 1918
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- Dec 10, 1917
Joseph Clarke
Joseph Andrew Clarke (September 20, 1869 – July 26, 1941) was a politician and lawyer from Canada. He served twice as mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, was a candidate for election to the Canadian House of Commons and the Legislative Assembly of Alberta,...
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- Dec 13, 1920
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- Dec 9, 1918
David Milwyn Duggan
David Milwyn Duggan (May 5, 1879 – May 4, 1942) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and a leader of the Conservative Party of Alberta.
David Duggan was born in Builth, Wales May...
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- Dec 10, 1923
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- Dec 13, 1920
Kenneth Alexander Blatchford
Kenneth Alexander (Kenny) Blatchford (March 5, 1882 – April 20, 1933) was a Canadian politician, who was a former mayor of Edmonton, Alberta and member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Kenny Blatchford was born in Minnedosa, Manitoba. He was...
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- Dec 13, 1926
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- Dec 10, 1923
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury
Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury (August 1, 1869 – March 29, 1951) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Ambrose Bury was born in Downings House, County Kildare, Ireland on August 1,...
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- Dec 9, 1929
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- Dec 13, 1926
James McCrie Douglas
James McCrie Douglas (February 5, 1867 – March 16, 1950) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Douglas was born February 5, 1867 in Middleville, Lanark County, Ontario. He was...
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- Nov 11, 1931
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- Dec 9, 1929
