* May 13 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off.

* Robert Wharton ( Philadelphia ) ( 1757 – 1834 ), Mayor of Philadelphia

Voters elected Dallas Mayor of Philadelphia as the candidate of the Family party, after the party had gained control of the city councils.

* J. Hampton Moore, former Mayor of Philadelphia ( Woodbury ).

Key speakers at the opening ceremonies were Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of Commerce and future President Herbert Hoover, and Philadelphia Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick.

His election received attention in the Philadelphia press at the time with the somewhat inaccurate lead, " Japanese Elected Mayor of American City for the First Time in History.

Its Municipal Building, named for 1970s Mayor Jean Walling, is located southwest of New York's Times Square and northeast of Center City, Philadelphia.

* John F. Street, Mayor of Philadelphia 2000 – 2008

Politicians that have graduated from Penn Law include Joseph Sill Clark ( Mayor of Philadelphia, and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ), Charles Robert Miller ( Governor of Delaware ), Charles A. Heimbold, Jr. ( former Chairman CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and U. S. Ambassador to Sweden ), Raul Roco ( former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines ), Oscar Goodman ( Mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada ), Harry Arista Mackey ( Mayor of Philadelphia ), Martin J. Silverstein ( U. S. Ambassador to Uruguay ) and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky ( member of the U. S. House of Representatives and women's rights activist ).

Entrepreneur and business executive alumni include Safra Catz ( President of Oracle Corporation ), David L. Cohen ( executive Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter Detkin ( co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, and former Vice-President and assistant general counsel at Intel ), Paul Haaga ( Vice Chairman of Capital Research and Management Company, a constituent company of the Capital Group Companies ), Sam Hamadeh ( founder of Vault. com ), Edward Benjamin Shils ( professor and founder of the first research center for entrepreneurial studies in the world ( at Wharton )), Gigi Sohn ( founder of Public Knowledge ), and Henry Silverman ( CEO of Cendant Corporation ).

His opponent was to be Democrat-turned-Republican former Philadelphia Mayor, Frank Rizzo.

* Mayor of Philadelphia once

The Chew family ’ s house on Third Street was situated between Spruce and Walnut Streets, next door to the house of Philadelphia Mayor Samuel Powel and his wife, Elizabeth Willing Powel, who was one of George Washington ’ s closest confidantes.

The Philadelphia Mayor ’ s Court Indenture Book, page 742, for September 18, 1773 has the following entry:

Mayor Kendrick reported to the press, " I had the guts to bring General Butler to Philadelphia and I have the guts to fire him.

The outspokenness that characterized his run-ins with the Mayor of Philadelphia, the " unreliability " mentioned by his superiors when opposing a posting to the Western Front, and his comments about Benito Mussolini resurfaced.

Ironically, Stassen would move to Pennsylvania and be defeated as the Republican nominee for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1959, and as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1958 and 1966.

He was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1893, an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in 1896, and an unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial nominee for a third term as Governor in 1902.

Organizers Craig Rodwell, Frank Kameny, Randy Wicker, Barbara Gittings, and Kay Lahusen, who had all participated for several years, took a bus along with other picketers from New York City to Philadelphia.

They were aware that voters had probably mistaken their film with the 1956 MGM musical of the same name starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra which was based on The Philadelphia Story.

The more well known include World Athletics Championships multiple gold medal-winning sprinter Tyson Gay ; former Tates Creek High School and Louisville Cardinals kicker David Akers, who is the all-time scoring leader for the Philadelphia Eagles ; former Louisville Cardinals football player and Cleveland Browns cornerback Frank Minnifield ; Miami Marlins outfielder Austin Kearns ; former Kentucky and Pittsburgh Steelers center Dermontti Dawson ; and NBC Sports announcer Tom Hammond.

After one year of study, he moved to Philadelphia and talked himself into a job with architect Frank Furness.

Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart had already opened the first Horn & Hardart Automat in Philadelphia in 1902, but their “ Automat ” at Broadway and 13th Street, in New York City, created a sensation.

James also claimed that Allen was to blame for the collapse of the 1965 Philadelphia Phillies because of a fight with Frank Thomas.

He currently stars as Frank Reynolds on the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

In 2006, DeVito joined the cast of the FX Networks television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as Frank Reynolds.

Several current players in the NFL attended Belleville High School, including former Michigan Wolverine and current Denver Bronco linebacker Ian Gold, Carolina Panther defensive tackle Kris Jenkins, his brother Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins, Buffalo Bill linebacker Kevin Harrison, and retired San Francisco 49er All-Pro linebacker Frank Nunley.

* Frank Budd ( born 1939 ), wide receiver in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins who once held the World Record in the 100 yard dash.

The town was first settled around 1816, and was founded in 1824 by Henry Frank Sr, a Revolutionary War Veteran from Philadelphia, Pa.

* The borough is home to former Major League Baseball player, Frank Bolick, former New York Jets football player Dan Ficca, current Philadelphia Eagles assistant coach to Andy Reid, Bret Veach, former San Francisco 49ers player Len Eshmont, and former New York State Billiards Champion Dave Daya.

From the mid 1920s onwards Bliss moved more into the established English musical tradition, leaving behind the influence of Stravinsky and the French modernists, and in the words of the critic Frank Howes, " after early enthusiastic flirtations with aggressive modernism admitted to a romantic heart and given rein to its less and less inhibited promptings " He received two major commissions from American orchestras, the Introduction and Allegro ( 1926 ) for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski and Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ) for the Boston Symphony and Pierre Monteux.

He dropped out of high school early to join a minor league team managed by former Philadelphia Athletics great Frank " Home Run " Baker.

While preferring to remain behind the scenes, Gigante would not hesitate to authorize the use of violence and was responsible for ordering the murders of Philadelphia crime family mobsters Antonio Caponigro, Fred Salerno, and Frank Sindone for the unsanctioned 1980 murder of Philadelphia boss Angelo Bruno, and Philadelphia mobsters Frank Narducci and Rocco Marinucci for the unsanctioned murder of Philip Testa, Bruno's successor.

This sharing agreement lasted into 1921 when Miller formed the new Union Quakers of Philadelphia, but All-Americans owner Frank McNeil put a halt to the agreement halfway through the 1921 season after the Quakers played the Canton Bulldogs and wore out the All-Americans players.

Spungen was born at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Frank and Deborah Spungen.

* Frank Rizzo, former mayor of Philadelphia

He was required to balance a city budget still at a record high $ 285 million deficit inherited from Mayor Rizzo, the largest ever inherited by an incoming Philadelphia mayor.

* 1986 – Frank Rizzo, before running for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1987

The sign issue was symbolic of the " in your face " attitude of both Pearlman and his political friend, ally, and mentor, Philadelphia Mayor Frank L. Rizzo.

The posters were generally constructed and installed by members of the Philadelphia Building Trades, strong political allies of both Pearlman and Rizzo.

Cohen was a local Democratic and community leader during the mayoral administrations of Philadelphia Mayors Joseph Clark and Richardson Dilworth, a councilman during the administration of Mayor James Hugh Joseph Tate and the police commissionership of Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, and a councilman in the mayoral administrations of Mayors William J.

In 1972, Mayor Frank Rizzo found it unnecessary for taxpayers to fund two separate police departments, and merged the Fairmount Park Police into the Philadelphia Police, creating the Park Division.

Griffin wrote a novel based on it, The Witness, and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo was quoted as saying that the DuBrow crime was " the most vicious crime I have ever come across.

She served as the head of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority during the administration of Mayor Frank Rizzo.

He ran third in the Republican primary election behind Rizzo and Philadelphia district attorney Ron Castille.

In 1975, he ran for mayor of Philadelphia, coming in third place to Frank Rizzo.

* Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia ( 1972 – 1980 )

Among its alumni are Albert Einstein, Michael and Kevin Bacon, Stanley Clarke, Chubby Checker, Former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo and Kevin Eubanks.

Unsuccessful Philadelphia Jewish mayoral candidates include Joseph Sharfsin, who lost to Joseph S. Clark for the 1951 Democratic Mayoral nomination, Arlen Specter, the unsuccessful 1967 Republican nominee against Mayor James H. J. Tate, David Cohen, who withdrew for the Democratic mayoral nomination in 1971 after trailing future mayors Frank L. Rizzo and William J.

Green, Sam Katz ( Philadelphia ), unsuccessful against Frank Rizzo for the Republican mayoral nomination in 1991 and the Republican nominee against Mayor John F. Street in 1999 and 2003, and Martin Weinberg, unsuccessful for the Democratic mayoral nomination against John Street in 1999.