The current Mayor of Portsmouth, Virginia is Kenneth I. Wright, who was elected November 2, 2010 for the remainder of the unexpired term to end December 31, 2012.

Bell House in College Road was designed in 1787 for Thomas Wright, a stationer and later Lord Mayor of the City of London.

Bingley later sold the estate to Sir Edmund Wright, a future Lord Mayor of London, in 1629, and the current house was built of brick in 1638.

As of 2010, Dan Wright is Mayor and Tom Franks is the Marshal.

Mayor Joe Wright announced his resignation from the office as of January 14, 2011 ; CIty Councilman John Jennings was named as Interim Mayor, until the appointment of Terry Dilk on January 25, 2011 by the Marion County Republican Committee to fill out Wright's term through the 2011 elections.

The first town government was appointed by Governor William Wright Heard in 1902 and consisted of a Mayor, 3 Aldermen and a Town Marshall.

, the Mayor of Winslow Township is Barry Wright.

The Mets play in Hunter Wright Stadium named after former Mayor Hunter Wright.

Upon leaving office as Mayor of Detroit in January 2002, Archer was appointed as chairman of Detroit-based law firm Dickinson Wright, and the board of directors of Compuware.

* George F. Wright ( 1881 – 1938 ), American politician, Mayor of Honolulu

; Robert Clyde Packer and Frank Packer, newspaper proprietors, and other members of the Packer family ; members of the Fairfax family, also newspaper proprietors ; John Norton and Ezra Norton and family, also newspaper proprietors ; Frank Clune, author ; Sir Walter Edward Davidson, Governor of New South Wales ; Roy Redgrave, founder of the Redgrave acting dynasty ; Edmund Resch, of the Resch's brewer family ; John Charles Wright, former Archbishop of Sydney ; former Lord Mayor of Sydney Sir Richard Watkins Richards and the architect Howard Joseland.

“ Well, ( officials from ) Hickory are going to file an appeal ,” said Concord Mayor Scott Padgett, who spoke briefly with Hickory Mayor Rudy Wright after the EMC meeting.

During his administration the Hawaii Housing Authority was established, and projects such as the " Mayor Wright homes " ( named for George F. Wright ) were begun.

George Fred Wright ( April 23, 1881 – July 2, 1938 ) was Mayor of Honolulu from 1931 to 1938.

He was appointed Mayor of Honolulu July 15, 1938 upon the death of George F. Wright, and served until to January 2, 1941.

He became the 4th Mayor of Chicago in 1840, defeating Benjamin Wright Raymond.

* Clifford Emerson Wright, Mayor of Saskatoon, appointed 1999

In 1898, he helped engineer the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and was " elected " mayor of Wilmington by the new city council after the coup d ' état forced the resignation of Republican Mayor Silas P. Wright and other members of the city government.

They included Robert S. Wiesenthal who became chairman of Sony ; Raymond J. McGuire of Citigroup ; Douglas L. Braunstein of JPMorgan Chase ; Deborah C. Wright of Carver Federal Savings Bank, Gail Zauder of Credit Suisse ; current Mayor of Chicago and former Chief of Staff for President Obama Rahm Emanuel ; and others.

I was surprised at Mayor Miriani's defeat, but perhaps Mayor-elect Cavanagh can accomplish some things that should have been done years ago.

The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.

He was elected as an alderman and as Mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee before being elected to the state assembly.

In 1829 Johnson helped organize a mechanics ' party ticket ; he was elected as a town alderman, and re-elected until he was elected Mayor in 1834.

The choice of Bonn was made mainly due to the advocacy of West Germany's first chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, a former Cologne Mayor and a native of that area.

A committee of public heath was created on 8 December ; on 9 December the inhabitants of Jausiers and its surroundings formed a colony under the direction of general councillor Brès, and Mayor Signoret of Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye.

For instance, Tomás Mac Curtain, the Mayor of Cork, was assassinated in March 1920 by local RIC men and the massacre of 13 civilians at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday was also carried out by the RIC although a small detachment of Auxiliaries were also present.

Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.

In 1933, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was fatally wounded in Miami, Florida during a failed assassination attempt on President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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

Emanuel was sworn in as Mayor on May 16, 2011.

The City and County's financing of the investment through the issuance and delivery of Bonds was delayed for two years, when Mayor Henry P. Coon, and the County Clerk, Wilhelm Loewy, each refused to countersign the Bonds.

His cadaver was taken to the public Plaza Mayor of Cuzco and displayed as a sign of defeat and his severed head as a warning to other would-be rebels.

In 1821 he was appointed Physician Extraordinary to King George IV, a great national honour, and was also made Mayor of Berkeley and Justice of the Peace.

The tale was highlighted by the Lord Mayor of London, Gilbert Inglefield, at the bicentennial of the Britannica.

The Lord Mayor, Thomas Skinner, was also involved.

The charter came into effect on September 29, 1688, and a Corporation was established comprising a Mayor, 12 Aldermen, 60-100 Burgesses and sergeants.

Nathaniel Higginson, who was then the second member of the Council of Fort St George took office as the Mayor of Madras.

The 90th anniversary was celebrated with military parade in Dublin on Easter Sunday, 2006, attended by the President of Ireland, the Taoiseach and the Lord Mayor of Dublin.

Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (; born Fiorello Enrico La Guardia ; December 11, 1882September 20, 1947 ) was Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945 as a Republican.

Roosevelt was an admirer of LaGuardia ; after meeting Winston Churchill for the first time he described him as " an English Mayor LaGuardia.

The party leaders approached Cleveland, and he agreed to run for Mayor of Buffalo, provided that the rest of the ticket was to his liking.