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As mayor, Agnos and his family became the first to ride in the Lesbian Gay Freedom Day Parade, appointed minorities, lesbians and gays to high city posts, and ended the city ’ s opposition to a court-ordered consent decree to hire and promote minorities and women in the fire department which a federal judge opined was “ out of control ” due to racism when Agnos took office.
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The World Series ultimately resumed after a ten day postponement ( and some initial conflict between Vincent and San Francisco mayor Art Agnos, who felt that the World Series ought to have been delayed much longer ) on October 27, 1989.
( Art Agnos, elected mayor of San Francisco in 1988, had his political start as McCarthy's first legislative assistant, and later as the speaker's chief of staff.
After declining to endorse Agnos for re-election as mayor, in a race won by police chief Frank Jordan, Hongisto was appointed in 1992 by Jordan to be San Francisco's police chief.
Two days later, on the evening of December 13, future San Francisco mayor Art Agnos, then a member of the California Commission on Aging, was attending a meeting in Potrero Hill.
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Notable politicians include the first female mayor of Whitehorse, in 1975, Ione Christensen whose family had moved to Whitehorse in 1949, and Yukon's first senator, in 1975, Paul Lucier, who stayed in office until his death in 1999.
Seated at a dinner reception in Chicago with columnist Abra Anderson and mayor Jane Byrne, Margaret told them that the royal family had been moved by the many letters of condolence from Ireland.
George Kett's son, also George, was mayor of Cambridge on three occasions and compiled a genealogy of the Kett family.
A member of the Democratic Party, Quimby is the mayor of Springfield, and is a composite parody of U. S. Senator Ted Kennedy and certain other members of the Kennedy family who have entered politics.
His father is believed to have been a cadet son of a mayor of Veurne, while his mother Cathelijne ( or Catelyne ) was the daughter of a burgher family from Ypres.
The family consolidated its power in the late 7th century, eventually making the offices of mayor of the palace and dux et princeps Francorum hereditary and becoming the de facto rulers of the Franks as the real powers behind the throne.
* William Barefoot, born to Plymouth Brethren family, became the first socialist mayor of Woolwich in 1925.
Prominent Italian Americans that came from the neighborhood include Baseball legend Joe Dimaggio who grew up in the neighborhood and briefly returned to live there with his wife Marilyn Monroe during the 1950s, as well as former San Francisco mayor and politician Joseph Alioto as well as others from the prominent Alioto family.
Actress Rosemary Murphy, New York City mayor John Lindsay. Several members of the Whitney family have also lived there at one time or another.
Among the political leaders from this family were William Putnam " Buck " Sevier, Jr., a banker, town alderman, and mayor of Tallulah, who served from 1946 until his retirement in 1974.
Isaac D. Bogert, from a long established Bogert family, was elected mayor.
The manor of Matthias Nicoll who was an early mayor of New York City and among the first generation of the Nicoll family on Long Island, was a wood frame home built in the late 1600s, and one of the first homesteads on Cow Neck, the original name of the Manhasset Peninsula.
First settled in 1814 by the Daniel Nelson family, Nelsonville was incorporated in 1838 with Charles Cable as its first mayor.
The mysterious black associate of Rupert Anderson who threatens to castrate the mayor while he is bound to the chair is based on Colombo crime family capo and FBI informant Gregory Scarpa Sr.
Lewis Shattuck, son of a pioneer family, was the first mayor.
In 1884 – 85, Batey built a store and home for the arrival of the Mortimer Cook family from Santa Barbara, California where Cook had been mayor for two terms.
His father, Prospero Balbo, who belonged to a noble Piedmontese family, held a high position in the Sardinian court, and at the time of Cesare ’ s birth was mayor of the capital.
In 1939, Ernie Renzel, a wholesale grocer and future mayor of San Jose, led a group that negotiated an option to purchase of the Stockton Ranch from the Crocker family, to be the site of San Jose's airport.
Individuals can also have relationships with groups of people, such as the relation between a pastor and his congregation, an uncle and a family, or a mayor and a town.
* George William Clinton ( 1807 – 1885 ), American member of prominent political family which included George Clinton and DeWitt Clinton ; mayor of Buffalo from March 1842 to March 1843
Gregory Blaxland was born 17 June 1778 at Fordwich, Kent, England, the fourth son of John Blaxland, mayor from 1767 to 1774, whose family had owned estates nearby for generations, and Mary, daughter of Captain Parker, R. N.
Previous owners were the Lomax family who bought the house in 1666 and who lived there until 1854 when Joshua Lomax sold it to Henry Hayman Toulmin, a wealthy ship owner and High Sheriff of Hertfordshire and mayor of St Albans.
Among those present at the ceremony were Jim " Mudcat " Grant, Indians president Mark Shapiro, Cleveland mayor Frank Jackson, and various members of Doby's family.
After George Coupland Thomas died in 1955, the ownership was bought by Coupland Thomas ' family lawyer Warren B. Wilson, brother of Lionel Wilson, the past mayor of Oakland, California.
The present Mayor JoJo Guiani and six of his family and allies are being investigated after an ambush to his rival, Vice Mayor Mus Sema, who served three terms as a mayor prior to his Vice Mayoralty and is being rumored to run next election and according to police reports, this is the reason of his ambush which he survived.
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At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.
In 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.
In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County.
He became mayor of the village after Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814.
Baudot was born in Magneux, Haute-Marne, France, the son of farmer Pierre Emile Baudot, who later became the mayor of Magneux.
Jean-Sylvain Bailly, president of the Assembly at the time of the Tennis Court Oath, became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the commune.
To obtain large-scale federal money the mayor became a close partner of Roosevelt and New Deal agencies such as CWA, PWA and WPA, which poured $ 1. 1 billion into the city from 1934 – 39.
On his return Eustaquio became mayor over his native people.
* Johnny Ford ( born August 1942 ), American political figure ; Democrat, later Republican ; became Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972
Earlier, he had come to the area as one of the builders of the C & O Railway's terminals, and had served as the first mayor of Newport News after it became an independent city in 1896.
After leaving office as mayor, Giuliani founded Giuliani Partners, a security consulting business ; acquired Giuliani Capital Advisors ( later sold ), an investment banking firm ; and joined the Bracewell & Giuliani law firm, which changed its name when he became a partner.
This became clear when, on 27 February 1975, Peter Lorenz, the CDU candidate for mayor of Berlin, was kidnapped by the Movement 2 June ( allied to the RAF ) as part of pressure to secure the release of several other detainees.
( He later became mayor of Galveston.
The political power of the convent slowly waned in the 14th century, beginning with the establishment of the Zunftordnung ( guild laws ) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who also became the first independent mayor, i. e. not nominated by the abbess.
Helped by the mayor Giuseppe Cannone, Mascagni soon left the company of Maresca, not without problems, and became master of music and singing of the new philharmonia of Cerignola, where he earned a lot of esteem.
In 1956 Maria Desylla Kapodistria, relative of first Governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias, was elected mayor of Corfu and became the first female mayor in Greece.
In 1252, the town council and Schultheiss or mayor became mostly independent and had their own town seals.
In 1936, the city's mayor, Roger Salengro, became Minister of the Interior of the Popular Front, eventually killing himself after right-wing groups led a slanderous campaign against him.
Under the City Charter of the day, when O ' Dwyer resigned, City Council President Impellitteri became acting mayor.
When he resigned to run for the presidency in 1999, Rosario Robles Berlanga became the first woman mayor of Mexico City.
In 2000, PRD's Andrés Manuel López Obrador became the second democratically elected mayor of Mexico City.
Diego de Holguín became the first mayor of San Salvador after the town was founded on April 1, 1525.
Gralath also became Ratsherr ( councilman ) and, in 1763, Bürgermeister ( mayor ) of Danzig.
His father, also called William, was a corn merchant on the Newcastle quayside, who became mayor of Newcastle in 1850.
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