Jean Valjean ( who is revealed to be the mayor ) soon arrives, and realising his part in the ruination of Fantine, orders Javert to let her go and takes her to a hospital.

Starks arrives in Eatonville to find the residents devoid of ambition, so he arranges to buy more land from the neighboring landowner, hires some local residents to build a general store for him to own and run, and the people of the town appoint him mayor.

When " Madeleine " arrives, pardons Fantine and has her taken to a hospital, Javert is still suspicious of her and attempts to protest to the mayor, to no avail.

The city is governed by a " strong " mayor system who appoints two council members and / or city residents to serve at the mayor's pleasure on the board of public works and safety.

After successfully standing for re-election five times, and becoming Chicago's longest serving mayor, Richard M. Daley announced he would step down at the end of his final term in 2011.

Having already moved from its ground at Kent Street, Ascot Vale (" McCracken's Paddock ") to Flemington Hill, the club was again forced to move in 1881 ; and, because the City of Essendon mayor of the day, James Taylor, considered the Essendon Cricket Ground " to be suitable only for the gentleman's game of cricket ", Essendon moved to East Melbourne.

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

Jean-Sylvain Bailly, president of the Assembly at the time of the Tennis Court Oath, became the city's mayor under a new governmental structure known as the commune.

The mayor of the palace, Charles Martel, defeated that raiding party at the Battle of Tours ( although the battle took place between Tours and Poitiers ) and earned respect and power within the Frankish Kingdom.

Additionally, Ted Sorensen claimed in his memoir Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History ( 2008 ) to have had a hand in the speech, and said he had incorrectly inserted the word ein, incorrectly taking responsibility for the " jelly doughnut misconception ", below, a claim apparently supported by Berlin mayor Willy Brandt but dismissed by later scholars since the final typed version, which does not contain the words, is the last one Sorensen could have worked on.

In this franchise, the player is a mayor that may, at their leisure, take a city from a single village to a successful metropolis, laying down zones, taking care of the public services and stimulating the city's economy.

As the Jets sought to become a stronger franchise and remove themselves from their counterparts ' shadow, the team entered into negotiations with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an attempt to build a stadium on the west side of Manhattan, entering a bidding war with TransGas Energy Systems and Cablevision for the rights to the West Side Yard property — Hess, prior to his death, had been approached by former mayor Rudy Giuliani about bringing the team to the West Side when their lease at Giants Stadium expired in 2008.

On February 5, 2008, the city, under mayor Michael Bloomberg, threw a ticker tape parade in honor of the Giants ' Super Bowl XLII victory at the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan.

Directly in the centre of one of them I particularly noticed a very large dog, sitting in front of the door or entrance to his burrow, and by his own actions and those of his neighbors it really seemed as though he was the president, mayor, or chief — at all events, he was the ' big dog ' of the place.

* the mayor, appointed by the President ( who can remove him at any moment ) upon the recommendation of the Prime Minister, alongside a group of four deputy mayors heading eleven ministries ( of which financial, transport, urban development etc.

* June 15 – A bull breaks through barriers at a bullfight in Madrid, killing two people ( including the mayor of Torrejón de Ardoz ) and injuring a number of other spectators.

Seated at a dinner reception in Chicago with columnist Abra Anderson and mayor Jane Byrne, Margaret told them that the royal family had been moved by the many letters of condolence from Ireland.

First elected mayor in 1955 with a modest victory margin of 125, 179 votes, Daley was re-elected to that office six times and had been mayor for 21 years at the time of his death.

During his tenure as mayor, Washington lived at the Hampton House apartments in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.

This collar, however, has its origin in no royal favour, Sir John Alen, thrice a lord mayor, having bequeathed it to the then lord mayor and his successors " to use and occupie yerely at and uppon principall and festivall dayes.

He was visited by Leibniz, William III of Orange and his wife, the Amsterdam burgemeester ( the mayor ) Johan Huydecoper, the latter very interested in collecting and growing plants for the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam and all gazed at the tiny creatures.

Among numerous finds of prehistoric bones found at Unicorn Cave in Germany's Harz Mountains, some were selected and reconstructed by the mayor of Magdeburg, Otto Von Guericke, as a unicorn in 1663 ( illustration, right ).

The sitting mayor at the time, Agatino Licandro, made a remarkable confession reporting " suitcases coming into city hall stuffed with money but going out empty ".

Corfu's mayor at the time, Kollas, was a known collaborator and various anti-semitic laws were passed by the Nazis that now formed the occupation government of the island.

While Jacques Peirotes, at this time deputy at the Landrat Elsass-Lothringen and just elected mayor of Strasbourg, proclaimed the forfeiture of the German Empire and the advent of the French Republic, a self-proclaimed government of Alsace-Lorraine declared independence as the " Republic of Alsace-Lorraine ".

In 2010 the mayor of Washington Park, John Thornton, was found to have been fatally shot ; he was discovered in his car injured on the morning of April 1, 2010, and he died at the hospital at 6 AM.

In an attempt to raise funds to combat a $ 960, 000 budget deficit for 2010, mayor Dempsey has solicited donations to the city ’ s general fund from tax-exempt organizations like churches, schools and a hospital, in order to pay for services like fire protection, streetlights and roads.

The Ghostbusters go to the mayor with their suspicions, but are dismissed ; whereupon his scheming assistant Jack attempts to have them committed to a psychiatric hospital to protect the mayor's interests.

Within half an hour, the mayor of Timişoara appeared with three more doctors, hoping to persuade Edit to head to a hospital.

In 1550 the buildings of the hospital were acquired by the mayor and burgesses of the town who wished to establish a school.

Rudolph Giuliani, who would become the next mayor of New York, called the Crown Heights riot a " pogrom " because " for three days people were beaten up, people were sent to the hospital because they were Jewish.

On December 3, 2008, elected mayor Raul dela Cruz sustained bullet wounds to the body and died while being taken to the hospital in Tuguegarao City.

As mayor his most important accomplishment was founding the Ottawa Civic hospital.

In addition, he served as mayor of Couer d ' Alene during 1911 and 1912, and founded the town's hospital.

In the year 1571, the mayor and the council decided to build a special hospital for leprosy.

While Fantine is in the hospital, the mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer -- who is Jean Valjean masquerading under the name " Madeleine " to avoid being arrested as an escaped convict -- vows to retrieve Cosette for her.

At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.

Arzú won because of his strength in Guatemala City, where he had previously served as mayor, and in the surrounding urban area.

The move may be too slow: in June 2010, Court ordered the eviction of Paris older artist's squat, a renowned place for close-to-free concerts ( 5, 000 groups in 10 years, from all countries ), and where the state-owned Culture TV-channel ARTE itself went to record live sessions: and there was nothing the mayor could do, the tenant being a private investor.

Helped by the mayor Giuseppe Cannone, Mascagni soon left the company of Maresca, not without problems, and became master of music and singing of the new philharmonia of Cerignola, where he earned a lot of esteem.

While he still was mayor of Paris ( since 1977 ), Chirac went to Abidjan ( Côte d ' Ivoire ) where he supported President Houphouët-Boigny ( 1960 – 1993 ), although the latter was being called a " thief " by the local population.

Daley was Chicago's third mayor in a row from the working-class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life.

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.

William's father: Tom Harvey, was a jurat of Folkestone where he served the office of mayor in 1600.

The city government in Poitiers based its claims to legitimacy on the theory of government where the mayor and échevins held jurisdiction of the city's affairs in fief from the king: that is, they swore allegiance and promised support for him, and in return he granted them local authority.

In 657, the mayor Grimoald the Elder succeeded in putting his son Childebert the Adopted on the throne, where he remained until 662.

During this period, the city is again linked to the political choices, to Milan in 1221 that supports Monza, where the mayor had been excommunicated by the Archbishop of Milan, Enrico from Settala.

He died at age 90 on July 1, 2009, at Kings Mountain, North Carolina — a town where he had also been mayor for 23 years.

On 8 February 2007 the Place du 8 Février 1962, a square nearby the metro station was dedicated by Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, after sprays of flowers were deposited at the foot of a commemorative plaque installed inside the metro station where the killings occurred.

* William Mahone, 19th century railroad builder, Confederate General ( hero of the Battle of the Crater ), and politician was the mayor of Petersburg, where he and his wife Otelia Butler Mahone made their home for many years.

The position of acting mayor is usually of considerably more importance in a mayor-council form of municipal government, where the mayor performs functions of day-to-day leadership, than it is in a council-manager form of government, where the city manager provides day-to-day leadership and the position of mayor is either a largely or entirely ceremonial one.

He briefly entered politics as a reform candidate for mayor of New Orleans in 1858, where he was promoted by both the Whig and Democratic parties to challenge the Know Nothing party candidate.

* Tom Colten, later the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, was the business manager of the Bogalusa Daily News from 1948 until his relocation in 1955 to Minden in Webster Parish, where he served two terms as mayor.

* The blues musician Johnny Winter spent part of his childhood in Leland, where his father was mayor in the 1930s.

This is different than most borough councils, where there are seven council members and the mayor can only vote to break ties.