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.

Mims ' father-in-law, W. Matt Lowe, served on the police jury between 1940 and 1954 and was the mayor of Minden during the World War I era.

During the Prohibition era of the 1920s, the village was a local hotbed of bootlegging and gambling, although it faced vigorous opposition from the mayor, Mary McFadden.

The town also appears in Graham Greene's tribute Monsignor Quixote, where the heroes are a priest ( supposedly a descendant of Cervantes's character ), and the recently deposed Communist mayor of the town in the post-Franco era.

During his tenure as mayor, he oversaw the opening of the Central Artery elevated highway through the city's waterfront district, as well as the opening of the Freedom Trail, which traces many of Boston's Revolutionary War era landmarks.

His election marked a new era for City Hall as the first two-term Mayor under the City ’ s new Stronger-Mayor system, the first directly elected black mayor, and the first mayor in more than 70 years who did not come from City Council.

Following the scandal-prone Yukon Gold Rush era administration of Thomas J. Humes, Ballinger was elected as Seattle mayor in 1904 and, with the support of the downtown business elite, he cracked down somewhat ( but not heavily ) on vice, opposed labor unions, and was a roadblock to the city's strong municipal ownership movement.

In 2006 elections, Vlachos was re-elected, earning more than 42 % of the votes. In the 2010 elections, another communist mayor, Thomas Kotsambas was elected after the eight-year Vlachos era, making Petroupoli the only municipality in Greece that has a mayor supported by the Communist Party.

The largest development occurred in the inter-war era, when Josef Stříž was the mayor.

He was the mayor of the Ilkhanate palace, in the era of the sultan Abu Sa ' id.

Troyes has been in existence since the Roman era, as Augustobona Tricassium, which stood at the hub of numerous highways, primarily the Via Agrippa which led north to Reims and south to Langres and eventually to Milan ; other Roman routes from Troyes led to Poitiers, Autun and Orléans.

He also added to the palace of the counts of Poitou ( which had stood since the Merovingian era ), later added to by his granddaughter Eleanor of Aquitaine and surviving in Poitiers as the Palace of Justice to this day.

`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

But though Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it in the heady Hutchins era.

In the era of mechanical calculation it was common to

It was an era of constitution writing — most states were busy at the task — and leaders felt the new nation must have a written constitution, even though other nations did not.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

The controversy over the Ikin catch was one of the biggest disputes of the era.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

In the 1890s Australia was affected by a severe economic depression, ending a hectic era of land booms and tumultuous expansionism.

The intellectual society of this era was characterized by itinerant scholars, who were often employed by various state rulers as advisers on the methods of government, war, and diplomacy.

Amber DRPG was created in the 1980s, and is much more focused on relationships and roleplaying than most of the roleplaying games of that era.

Braudel's work came to define a " second " era of Annales historiography and was very influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially for his work on the Mediterranean region in the era of Philip II of Spain.

The reciprocal influence between the French school and Polish historiography was particularly evident in studies on the Middle Ages and the early modern era studied by Braudel.

In addition to this, the land the Ainu lived on was distributed to the Wajin who had decided to move to Hokkaido, who had been encouraged by the Japanese government of the Meiji era to take advantage of the island ’ s abundance of natural resources, and to create and maintain farms in the model of western industrial agriculture.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

During the post-Phoenician era of the eighth century a palace was erected and a port was also constructed, which served the trade with the Greeks and the Levantines.

He was also one of the most important philanthropists of his era.

After doctors of the era informed him they could find no physical cause, Alexander reasoned that he was doing something to himself while speaking to cause his problem.

The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the " rock era " and the music industry that preceded it ; Billboard separated its statistical tabulations into 1890-1954 and 1955 – present.

The era was preceded by the Regency era and succeeded by the Edwardian period.

The era was preceded by the Georgian period and followed by the Edwardian period.

It is at the end of the Edo period and preceded the Meiji era.

* in an era when religion was rich in pageantry, the presence of the College of Vestal Virgins was required in numerous public ceremonies and wherever they went, they were transported in a carpentum, a covered two-wheeled carriage, preceded by a lictor, and had the right-of-way ;

The Banana massacre is said to be one of the main events that preceded the Bogotazo, the subsequent era of violence known as La Violencia, and the guerrillas who developed during the bipartisan National Front period, creating the ongoing armed conflict in Colombia.

However, based on Chazalic sources, some researchers have argued that the Sadducee group originated in tandem with the Boethusian group during the Second Temple period, with their founders, Tzadok and Boethus, both being individual students of Antigonus of Sokho, who preceded the Zugot era, with no direct connection between the founder of the Tzadoki sect and Tzadok the Kohen Gadol, other than the same name.

" In 1979, she was awarded the Women in film Crystal Award in Los Angeles In 1984, she received an American Film Institute Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming only the second female recipient ( preceded by Bette Davis in 1977 ), and the only recipient who was a major figure in the silent era.

Lucas claims that he first designed a backstory which preceded the original film trilogy — the events surrounding the Clone Wars era.

This family of languages is sometimes described as Paleosiberian, a classification that rests on a belief that it represents a strata of Siberian populations that preceded the speakers of the other modern languages of Siberia ( mostly of the Indo-European and Altaic language families ), possibly one that dates back to the Paleolithic era when North America was initially populated.

( In an era which preceded the common use of surnames, Moses became known by his patronymic, Isserles.

He primarily denounced corruption and gangsterism rampant during the governments of Ramón Grau and Carlos Prío which preceded the Batista era.

Though relatively unknown compared to the United States Constitution that went into effect in 1789 and the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, it preceded them and was a forerunner of modern democracy founded on Enlightenment principles, along with the 1720 documents of Sweden's Age of Liberty ( the Swedish 18th-century parliamentary era ).

Yet the critical spirit that characterized the Southern Renaissance did have roots in the era that preceded it.

The law as it stands after his differs in its purpose from the era which preceded him.

Between the years 1815, the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions the Biedermeier contrasted with the Romantic era which preceded it partly.

Biedermeier refers to work in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design in the period between the years 1815 ( Vienna Congress ), the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and 1848, the year of the European revolutions and contrasts with the Romantic era which preceded it.

Presley's success was preceded by Bill Haley, a white performer whose " Rock Around the Clock " is sometimes pointed to as the start of the rock era.

Nonetheless, Teymourtash's rise to prominence on the Iranian political scene predated the rise of Reza Shah to the throne in 1925, and his elevation to the second most powerful political position in the early Pahlavi era was preceded by a number of significant political appointments.