, members of the Montague Township Committee are Mayor Joe Barbagallo, Deputy Mayor George Zitone, Paul Brislin, Richard Innella and Darren Ponce.

Mayor Darren Scully resigned from office on 22 November 2011 in the wake of comments he made about the " aggressive attitude " of " black Africans " he had allegedly encountered in the course of his constituency work.

* Darren Scully ( born 1971 / 1972 ), Mayor of Naas until he resigned over comments about the " aggressive attitude " of " black Africans "

Cordova was at the center of a national controversy when the Mayor and council upheld the city's ban on single wide mobile homes after the tornadoes of April 2011.

Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

He defeated Democrat nominee Debbie Cook, Mayor of Huntington Beach, 53 %– 43 %, the lowest winning percentage of Dana's career.

The Tribune absorbed three other Chicago publications under the new editors: the Free West in 1855, the Democratic Press in 1858, and the Chicago Democrat in 1861, whose editor, John Wentworth, left his position to become Chicago Mayor.

Independent candidate David A. Bowers, a former Democrat, defeated incumbent Democrat Nelson Harris for Mayor in the May 2008 election with 53 % of the vote.

* Barbara Brande ( Democrat )-1975 to 1980 ( Mayor in 1977 )

* Carolyn Vollero ( Democrat )-1988 to 1996 ( Mayor in 1994, Deputy Mayor in 1993 )

In 2005, Bethlehem Mayor Don Cunningham unseated incumbent County Executive Jane Ervin to become the first Democrat to be elected to the office.

Mayor McDonald was originally elected as a Democrat.

The current chief executive of Brazil is Mayor Ann Bradshaw ( Democrat ).

Mayor Roberts, a Democrat, has been a resident of Walled Lake since 1954.

Daniel Baer's service had marked the first time in the history of the town that a Democrat held the title of Mayor.

The incumbent mayor, Anthony Persichilli, a Democrat, was first elected on November 7, 2006 to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Mayor James Loper.

, the Mayor of Sea Bright is Democrat Dina Long ( 2015 ).

, the Mayor of the Borough of Haledon is Domenick Stampone, a Democrat who defeated incumbent Ken Pengitore in November 2006.

The Mayor of Rahway is Richard B. Proctor ( Democrat ), who was first elected in 2010 and is serving his first term in office.

Since becoming a city in 1960, the political power was balanced until the late 1960s and early 1970s when the Republicans led by Mayor Anthony DePaola dominated until 1983 when Democrat John Jaworski was elected mayor.

Michael " Moon " Mullen, a Democrat, is the current Mayor of Marietta.

, the Mayor of Northfield is Vincent Mazzeo ( Democrat, term expires December 31, 2015 ).

Hylan became a judge in the Kings County ( Brooklyn ) county court and was in that position when he was tapped by Tammany Hall as a dark-horse candidate for Mayor, running as a Democrat, through the promotion of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who shared with him a desire for municipal ownership of utilities.

The current Mayor is Mr David Powell ( Liberal Democrat ).

The liberal leaders of the 1960s, characteristic of the era of the Great Society and the civil rights movement, gave way to conservative urban politicians in the 1970s across the country, such as New York Mayor Ed Koch, a conservative Democrat.

* Politics — Alumni involved in politics include Amanda Burden, Director of City Planning for New York ; Sharon Hom, Director of Human Rights in China ; and two former members of the United States House of Representatives: Democrat and President Barack Obama's former Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel and former Republican Congresswoman Sue W. Kelly.

When Ehud Olmert was serving in his post as Mayor of Jerusalem, he led efforts to protest against the way Orient House was functioning, refusing to meet with Faisal Husseini and demanding that Orient House pay 300, 000 USD in municipal taxes.

Before serving two terms as Berkeley's Mayor, Dean served on the Berkeley City Council for 15 years between 1975 and 1994 and was a leader of the Berkeley Democratic Club.

Since leaving the Mayor ’ s Office in 2002, Dean has been involved in several community and environmental organizations, serving on the boards of:

Harold Lee Washington ( April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987 ) was an American lawyer and politician who became the first African-American Mayor of Chicago, serving from 1983 until his death in 1987.

The title " Lord Mayor " came to be used after 1354, when it was granted to Thomas Legge ( then serving his second of two terms ) by King Edward III.

While serving as Mayor, he organized the Historical Society of New York in 1804 and was its president.

Mayor Brande was elected to the Township Committee in 1974 and reelected in 1977, serving a total of six years.

The Mayor must be a serving councillor, although the role of Mayor is non-political.

Mayor Leon Smith is currently serving his seventh term, having been elected to the post in 1984.

There is a City Manager along with a five member City Commission ( 3 districts, with 2 at large ), with one Commissioner serving as Mayor and another serving as Mayor Pro-Tem.

Each Council Member is a voting member of the Council, with the Mayor serving as the Chair.

Altamonte Springs has a City Manager, City Commissioner form of government, consisting of four commission districts and the Mayor serving City-wide.

Village President ( Mayor ) Richard Hofeld is the current and longest serving Mayor in Homewood history, having been elected to his fourth term in May 2009, as head of the Greater Homewood Party ( GHP ).

The Mayor ( President of the board ) of West City is Charles Cockrum, who was elected to a full term in April 2009 after serving a brief term as the acting mayor.

Roodhouse Mayor Joe Snyder is the current Mayor serving until 2013.

Carterville's long serving Mayor is Bill Mausey.

David D. Womack, Mayor Pro-Tempore, serving since: 2007

In 2011 Mayor Ryan Warner was elected for the first time, previously serving as a Town Council member.