A mayor is elected every two years.

The clerk-treasure and mayor are full-time elected officials.

Each municipality has an autonomous local government, comprising a mayor, directly elected by the people to a four year term, and a legislative body, also directly elected by the people.

George Mitchell was elected the first mayor.

In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

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.

The mayor is elected in a citywide vote to a four year term.

The mayor is top elected individual for the city.

Parker was a resident of Davenport and one of six trustees elected to govern the city with Rodolphus Bennet being the first mayor.

in France, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.

On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.

During the political opening after the military regime, the people elected the city's first woman mayor, Maria Luíza Fontenele, and had the first city hall commanded by a left-wing party.

Cleveland was elected mayor with 15, 120 votes, as against 11, 528 for Milton C. Beebe, his opponent.

* 1979-First mayor elected

* Johnny Ford ( born August 1942 ), American political figure ; Democrat, later Republican ; became Alabama's first African-American mayor when elected by Tuskegee in 1972

John's supporters formed a commune in Acre, of which John himself was elected mayor in 1232.

The last municipal election, held on December 9, 2006, resulted in a victory for the Democratic Progressive Party's candidate Chen Chu, the first elected female mayor of special municipality in Taiwan, defeating her Kuomintang rival and former deputy mayor, Huang Chun-ying.

Each union council comprised thirteen members elected from specified electorates: four men and two women elected directly by the general population ; two men and two women elected by peasants and workers ; one member for minority communities ; two members are elected jointly as the union mayor ( nazim ) and deputy union mayor ( naib nazim ).

The movie, which is influenced by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, centers around two Mexicans who are mistaken for government inspectors from Mexico City by the corrupt mayor of a small town.

Channing also secured aid from Justice Lemuel Shaw and Boston mayor Josiah Quincy, Jr.

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.

The participant carrying the ball when it reaches the turret clock will receive a £ 10 reward from the mayor.

Before the end of the year, Charles Martel had escaped from prison and been acclaimed mayor by the nobles of that kingdom.

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.

To obtain large-scale federal money the mayor became a close partner of Roosevelt and New Deal agencies such as CWA, PWA and WPA, which poured $ 1. 1 billion into the city from 1934 – 39.

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

Teddy Kollek, an Austrian Jew, former agent of Mossad and mayor of Jerusalem, recognised him from their prewar Vienna days, saw them together and assumed that Angleton had " turned " Philby into a triple agent.

Hsieh resigned from the office of mayor to take up the office of Premier of the Republic of China in 2005.

The city's mayor from 1930 to 1937, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a noted opponent of the Nazi regime in Germany.

As a result of NHC's forecasts there had been a massive evacuation of New Orleans amid warnings ( for example from the city's mayor, Ray Nagin ) that this would be the “ storm of the century ”, potentially more devastating than Katrina almost exactly three years earlier, but these fears were not realised.

However, from 1994 and under the leadership of the new mayor Ilmar Reepalu, the city of Malmö started to re-conceptualize itself as a center of culture and knowledge.

* Ernst Reuter ( 1889 – 1953 ), mayor of Magdeburg 1931-1933, then mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953.

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.

Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen proposed a three day cooling period in which clients would be informed three days before actually procuring the mushrooms and if they would still like to go through with it they could pick up their spores from the smart shop.

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.

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.

The famously abrasive columnist and restaurant reviewer A A Gill in his 2005 book The Angry Island called Stow " catastrophically ghastly " and " the worst place in the world ", resulting in an angry response from the town's mayor.

This latest removal resulted in widespread international media attention, and general disapproval from most Londoners as well as from mayor Boris Johnson.

It was now the sons of the mayor that divided the realm among each other under the rule of a single king.

After the fall of Communism in Russia, many prominent Soviets came to Turku to study Western business practices, among them Vladimir Putin, then Leningrad's deputy mayor.

His legitimate grandchildren claimed they were Pepin's true successors and, with the help of Plectrude, tried to maintain the position of mayor of the palace after Pepin's death, however, Charles had gained favor among the Austrasians primarily for his military prowess and ability to keep them well supplied with booty from his conquests.

The mayor has little, if any, executive authority and essentially is the " first among equals " on the city council.

The mayor of Leuven is currently Louis Tobback, a socialist prominent on the national level, formerly minister of internal affairs and leader of the socialist faction in the lower chamber of the Belgian parliament, among other positions held.

He had numerous half-siblings, among them Thomas T. Minor, mayor of Seattle, Washington, in the late 1880s.

In France a mayor, maire, and a number of experienced members termed adjoint au maire ' mayoral adjunct ', who assist him as an executive committee, are selected by the municipal council from among their own number.

Under council-manager government, the mayor is a first among equals on the city council, which acts as a legislative body while executive functions are performed by the appointed manager.

The vice mayor is elected by the city council from among its members.

The mayor and vice mayor are elected annually by the city council from among its members.

Each year a new mayor is chosen from among the councilmembers.

Each year, council members elect a mayor and vice mayor from among themselves.

The mayor, who holds little executive power, is periodically selected among current city council members to chair meetings and is " considered the official representative of the city.

The commissioners elect among themselves a president ( known informally as " the mayor ") and vice president.

The mayor and mayor pro tempore are chosen by a majority vote of the City Commission ; the Mayor presides over the City Commission and is considered primus inter pares, or first among equals, on the commission.

Following each election, the councilmembers vote among themselves to choose a member to serve a one-year term as mayor.

The mayor and deputy mayor are selected at an annual reorganization meeting by the Committee from among its members.

The mayor is selected at a reorganization meeting held after each election by the council from among its members, and presides over its meetings with no separate policy-making power.

A mayor and deputy mayor are selected by the council from among its members.