Slocum made his reconnaissanace the next morning, found the town empty, accepted the surrender of the mayor and occupied the city a little before noon.

Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.

He accepted the congratulations of Ohio governor Michael DiSalle, Connecticut governor Abraham A. Ribicoff, Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley, and New York mayor Robert F. Wagner, Jr .. Lawrence said that " Johnson has the strength where you need it most "; he then left to begin writing the nomination speech.

According to reports by the mayor and economists of the day who studied the experiment, the scrip was readily accepted by local merchants and the local population.

In 1693 king Charles XI accepted a compromise after repeated petitions from the Estate of the Burgesses through decades against the royal mayor appointments.

Then, after just three days in the mining camp, he accepted the nomination to run for alcalde, a Mexican official, which combined the duties of a mayor and justice of the peace, in a new government that was being formed.

Under the leadership of the former mayor, the late Roman Ward, the police department was reinstated, the water lines were repaired / replaced, and a grant was accepted from the Cherokee Nation to repave the streets.

) – had been accepted by the Greek Communist Party which later proposed him as the candidate for mayor of Athens during the 1978 elections.

According to local sources, following the capture of the town, its inhabitants chose a Morisco as a mayor and since his Christian faith was doubted, he accepted to be baptized in public after which the town erupted in festivities.

He believed that he could best help the war effort by enlisting ; he resigned his position as mayor and accepted a Naval Reserve commission on April 8, 1942.

He was great-grandson of Sir Edward Osborne, Lord Mayor of London, who, according to the accepted account, while apprentice to Sir William Hewett, clothworker and lord mayor in 1559, made the fortunes of the family by leaping from London Bridge into the river and rescuing Anne ( d. 1585 ), the daughter of his employer, whom he afterwards married.

While Bishop was mayor, the Prince of Wales accepted his invitation to visit the city, and, despite being a Democrat, Bishop made the address of welcome to President Lincoln as he passed through on the way to his inauguration.

It was however not accepted by the mayor of Werdohl, and was not pursued further.

In 2003, the Greens accepted an offer to nominate a deputy mayor and selected Jenny Jones, who became London's second deputy mayor.

X-23 later moves with the X-Men to San Francisco, where they are accepted as heroes by the mayor, having rejected the Fifty State Initiative.

Recently, she had accepted an assignment to kill Rally and May because the two had interfered in a gun-running operation run by Edward Haints, an Illinois assemblyman running for mayor under a gun-control platform.

Future mayor of Atlantic City Edward L. Bader, and his company, accepted the challenge to rebuild it.

The mayor of New York City asked Blackburn to help treat victims of the outbreak ; Blackburn accepted the invitation and refused compensation for his services.

Around this time Boothby accepted a role as private secretary to the mayor of Adelaide, Lewis Cohen, but was " not contented " with the work.

Howard refused but accepted another position with the mayor instead, insisting that he did not feel victimized by the incident.

In August 2010 he entered the debate on the legalisation of gay marriage in Mexico by accusing justices of the Mexican Supreme Court of having accepted bribes from the PRD ( Democratic Revolution Party ) and the PRD mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, to uphold the Mexico City statute that legalises both gay marriage and gay adoption of children.

Upon returning to Toronto, his friends and team mates looked on in front of a crowd of 20, 000 people outside Old City Hall, as Jack Tait sheeplishly accepted a new Grandfather Clock from the mayor for his win in the mile.

A few minutes later, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Walter Tröger, the mayor of the Olympic Village, were briefly allowed into the apartments to speak with the hostages.

Since 2003, former Olympic skater Wayne Seybold has been Marion's mayor.

* Joseph Rabinowitz, founder of the Woodbine Children's Clothing Company, the community's largest employer, who was elected at age 37 in 1910 as third mayor of Woodbine ; his descendants include grandson, Jay Rabinowitz, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska ; Robert Rabinowitz ( artist ), creator of Beatlemania ( musical ), clinical psychologist Barrie R. Cassileth and Olympic athlete Judy Rabinowitz.

Following Olympic tradition, then-Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan received the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

He was also mayor when Atlanta was selected as the host city for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, when the decision was made in September 1990.

The Olympic mayor, Frank Sartor, was the longest serving Lord Mayor of Sydney, serving from 1991 to 2003 and his successor, Lucy Turnbull, became the first woman to hold that office in 2003.

Morehouse is one of two black colleges in the country to produce Rhodes Scholars, and it is the alma mater of many African-American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., theologian Howard Thurman, filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Samuel L. Jackson, Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses, musician Lil Jon, former Bank of America Chairman Walter E. Massey, the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, and former United States Surgeon General David Satcher, among others.

During Bradley's tenure as mayor, Los Angeles hosted the 1984 Summer Olympic Games and passed Chicago to become the second most populous city in the country.

He wrote that the British athletes were " tainted with the blood of Tibetans ", and that London mayor Boris Johnson was " forced to go to Beijing to collect the Olympic flag ".

Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city's history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games.

As mayor, she was heavily involved in the preparation of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games, and passed the Olympic flag to the mayor of Beijing, Wang Qishan.

He developed a plan to financially support the province's Olympic athletes in the early 1990s, and helped establish the Winnipeg Thunder basketball team in 1992 with future mayor Sam Katz.

* Erik von Frenckell, mayor, member of International Olympic Committee, politician

As second deputy mayor with direct responsibility for organisation, economy and treasury, he started a thorough reorganisation of the economic and financial structure of the City Hall with the aim of reaching budgetary stability and, at the same time, establishing a consistent investment programme to tackle the period after the Olympic Games with new projects.

On 9 August 1889, Franceville declared itself independent under the leadership of mayor / president Ferdinand Chevillard and with its own red, white and blue flag with five stars.

Under a flag of truce, Eufaula's mayor, Doctor C. J. Pope, and other prominent citizens met General Grierson beyond College Hill with news that General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse and that the Civil War was over.

The group pleaded " not guilty ": the mayor said the flag had been displayed by mistake.

The flag was officially adopted during José Alvarez Brunet tenure as mayor on September 5, 1974.

The mayor ( or governor, in the case of state capitals and ambassadors or consuls in the case of overseas celebrations ), rings a bell and gives the traditional words, with the names of Mexican independence heroes included, ending with the threefold shout of Viva Mexico !, the bell ringing for the second time, the waving of the Mexican flag and the mass singing of the National Anthem by everyone in attendance.

In what is known as the Antwerp Ceremony, the mayor of the city that organized the Games transfers a special Pan American Games flag to the president of PASO, who then passes it on to the mayor of the city hosting the next Pan American Games.

The mission arrived at San Francisco carrying the newly-created Korean national flag, visited many American historical sites, heard lectures on American history, and attended a gala event in their honor given by the mayor of San Francisco and other U. S. officials.

However, this initial design began facing protests from some Chinese, including the mayor of Shanghai, Chen Liangyu, who considered it too similar to the rising sun design of the Japanese flag.

The flag of the US capital hangs proudly inside the church, presented on 25 July 1977 by Walter E. Washington, mayor of Washington DC from 2 January 1975-2 January 1979

In the apocalyptic 2006 CBS TV drama Jericho, the flag makes several appearances, most notably in the series finale as Jericho's acting mayor takes down the flag of the " Allied States of America ", which had been flying at the town hall following a federal coup.

He replaces the red, white, and blue flag of the central government with a Gadsden Flag which the previous mayor had kept framed in his office.

In December 2011, Larson invited the mayor of Portland, Oregon, Sam Adams, on the program to talk about a controversial city flag policy.

At midnight, in the Konstituzio Plaza in the " Alde Zaharra / Parte Vieja " ( Old Town ), the mayor raises the flag of San Sebastián.

Booklets sent to mayors had the mayor's name on the front, and an endorsement from the mayor on the back, along with the Florida state flag and the address of the town hall.

The mayor of Fianarantsoa comes from the MFM political party whose colors are based on the anarcho-syndicalist flag.