He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997.

* 2099: World of Tomorrow # 1-8 ( with Ben Raab, Pasqual Ferry, Jason Armstrong, David Brewer, Karl Moline and Yancey Labat, 1996 – 1997 )

Aptidon resigned as president 1999, at the age of 83, after being elected to a fifth term in 1997.

In October 1997, the mayor's City Council floor leader, Patrick Huels of the 11th Ward, the Daley family's home ward, resigned in disgrace amid allegations he used his aldermanic office to benefit his private security firm, which got a loan from city contractor and close Daley friend Michael Tadin.

He chaired the United States Delegation at the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population and Development, and was the lead U. S. negotiator for the Kyoto Climate Conference until he resigned from the Administration in late 1997 to accept Ted Turner ’ s invitation to be President of the newly created United Nations Foundation.

Heading into the 1997 – 98 season, Linden resigned his captaincy for Messier, who had developed a strong reputation as a leader, having captained the Rangers over the Canucks in 1994 ( he also captained the Oilers to a Stanley Cup in 1990 ).

Verhofstadt resigned and disappeared from the political scene, only to return to the party's presidency in 1997 with a less radical image.

She apologized to Congressional committees in 1996 for spending which exceeded limits on the funds appropriated to the agency for travel, and resigned in January 1997.

In 1997 Libor Pešek resigned as principal conductor and was given the title of conductor laureate.

After the 1997 general election, she was appointed a junior minister in the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair, with responsibility for London Transport, a post she resigned before an attempt to be nominated as the Labour Party candidate for the election of the first Mayor of London in 2000.

When Major resigned after the 1997 General Election defeat, Redwood stood for the leadership, and was again defeated, though he secured more support than rival candidates Peter Lilley and Michael Howard.

Believing ten years was long enough for a premier to hold office, and having pledged to serve such a term when first elected, McKenna resigned in 1997 – 10 years to the day of the 1987 election.

Following the resignation of Brundtland in 1996, Thorbjørn Jagland was elected leader of the Labour Party and became Prime Minister, while Stoltenberg was appointed Minister of Finance, an office he held until 17 October 1997 when Jagland and the entire government resigned.

On the 29 September 1997, Jagland resigned because of an ultimatum he had issued stating that the cabinet would resign should the party receive less than 36. 9 % of the popular vote.

Jagland, who was much ridiculed in the media for his quotes and statements and frequently portrayed as incompetent, resigned following the 1997 election, as a consequence of his much ridiculed 36. 9 ultimatum, even though his party won the most votes.

Before serving as president, Khatami had been a representative in the parliament from 1980 to 1982, supervisor of the Kayhan Institute, Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance ( 1982 – 1986 ), and then for a second term from 1989 to May 24, 1992 ( when he resigned ), the head of the National Library of Iran from 1992 to 1997, and a member of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution.

He was leader of the Progressive Liberal Party ( PLP ) from 1965 to 1997 when he resigned from public life under scandal.

She later temporarily resigned from the Academy, following the broadcast of a BBC Omnibus television documentary about the preparations for the controversial Sensation exhibition hosted by the Academy in 1997 show-casing the Young British Artists.

He resigned his seat in 1997, after his wife Carol died of cancer on December 27, 1996, leaving behind three children.

In 1997, AIA merged with Kitty Hawk Inc. and Conrad Kalitta resigned to start Kalitta Leasing for buying, selling and leasing large aircraft.

He resigned from the president's tenure one month after the DP lost the 1997 elections to the left coalition.

Soon afterwards, Deng resigned his last major party post, as chairman of the central military committee, although he remained influential behind the scenes until his death in 1997.

He resigned as chairman in 1997.

George Eaton, the last of the family to be involved in management, resigned as chief executive in 1997, being succeeded by George Kosich.

In February 1997 he resigned as a minister and joined the Reconciliacion Colorada Movement ( MRC ).

The collapse of Ponzi schemes in 1997, caused the beginning of an armed popular revolt against president Sali Berisha, who resigned on July 1997, who called the untimely parliamentary elections in June 29, and to decree a general amnesty to all prisoners in March 1997, Nano too was released from prison.

He began his club football career with CE Mataró, before being signed for Barcelona's La Masia youth academy aged 10 in 1997.

Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in 1997 signed legislation designating the southwest corner of West 54th Street and Broadway, the corner on which John J. Fitz Gerald lived from 1934 to 1963, as " Big Apple Corner.

In 1997, the state filed suit to establish its jurisdiction, leading New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to remark dramatically that his father, an Italian who immigrated through Ellis Island, never intended to go to New Jersey.

After the Labour party won the 1997 general election, the policy was outlined in a White paper entitled A Mayor and Assembly for London ( March 1998 ).

However, in 1997 after a highly contested mayoral election the City of Greensboro elected its first African American Mayor, John E. Owens Jr. At this time Greensboro appointed its first African American Police Chief, Claude E. Hamilton.

A petition to have Wiszowaty run again for the village board was circulated in 1995 by supporters, which likely would have led to another run for Mayor again in 1997, Wiszowaty chose not to seek election to his old seat on the Village Board.

Following a $ 100, 000 pay-off to former Mayor Matthew Scannapieco the planning board used the distance to the new school as justification to close the airfield citing a reference to a fatal plane crash in 1997.

* Upendra J. Chivukula ( born 1950 ), represents the 17th legislative district in the New Jersey General Assembly, and has served on the Franklin Township Council since 1997, serving as its Mayor in 2000 and its Deputy Mayor in 1998.

She joined the Liberal Democrats in 1994, was elected as a councillor to the Test Valley Borough Council in 1995, and in 1997 became the youngest ever female Mayor of Romsey.

He was the Mayor of Belgrade in 1997, and long-time opposition politician and a doctor in philosophy.

Tim Rigby was the Mayor of St. Catharines from 1997 to 2006 ; Brian McMullan was elected to succeed Rigby on November 13, 2006, and was sworn in on December 4.

In 1996, Coleman joined the Republican Party and was reelected in 1997 as Mayor of St. Paul, defeating Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nominee State Senator Sandy Pappas.

In a letter to supporters announcing the switch, Coleman wrote that “ while the political party I belong to changes, nothing about how I govern or what I believe changes at all .” He was re-elected as St. Paul Mayor in 1997, with nearly 60 % of the vote.

On April 25, 1997 New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani issued a proclamation, naming April 25 " Harry Harrison Day " in honor of the second " Mayor.

In December 1997, he was also appointed by the Mayor to the New York City Gambling Control Commission.

Mayor of Châtellerault: 1983 – 1997 ( Resignation ).

He was previously Prime Minister of Lithuania in 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001, and he also served as Mayor of Vilnius from 1997 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001.

In 1997 Paksas was elected to Vilnius City Council and became the Mayor of the Vilnius city municipality.

In 1997, he became the Chief of Staff of the Mayor of Kisela Voda, a municipality in Skopje.

After the completion of his two terms as magistrate in 1997, he was in 1998 appointed Chairman of the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation by then Mayor Chen Shui-bian.

He served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health from 1997 to 1999, and was the official Labour Party candidate for Mayor of London in 2000, ultimately finishing third in the election, behind Conservative Steven Norris and winner Ken Livingstone.

She celebrated her 100th birthday in 1997 dancing a short waltz with the Mayor of Vienna and remarking, " I would have enjoyed it, for a change, to design a house for a rich man.

He also appeared in Superman: The Animated Series as the voice of the Mayor of Metropolis on the episode " Speed Demons " in 1997, and as an alien military general in the episode " Absolute Power " in 1999.