The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

It was during this period that the first majores domus or mayors of the palace appeared.

In 2007, Spring Valley Mayor George Darden was elected vice president of the World Conference of Mayors during the organization's 23rd annual mayors ' conference held in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Colmar has been continuously governed by conservative parties since 1947, the Popular Republican Movement ( 1947 – 1977 ), the Union for French Democracy ( 1977 – 1995 ) and the Union for a Popular Movement ( since 1995 ), and has had only three mayors during that time.

Local government politicians, including mayors, councillors and District Health Boards are voted in during the local elections, held every three years.

The PDG won a landslide victory in the legislative election, but several major cities, including Libreville, elected opposition mayors during the 1997 local election.

Sir Thomas Wyse KCB ( 24 December 1791 – 16 April 1862 ), an Irish politician and diplomat, belonged to a family claiming descent from a Devon squire, Andrew Wyse, who is said to have crossed over to Ireland during the reign of Henry II and obtained lands near Waterford, of which city thirty-three members of the family are said to have been mayors or other municipal officers.

In February 2004, Robert Rose, an ethics watchdog, filed a complaint with the Nevada Commission on Ethics claiming that during the U. S. Conference of Mayors, Goodman handed out to fellow mayors, conference attendees and other political figures invitations to a cocktail party Goodman was hosting.

On the corner of Richmond Terrace and Lockman Avenue is the Fellowship Baptist Church, which has a large African American congregation and has gained considerable political influence being visited by New York City mayors David Dinkins, Rudolph Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg on multiple occasions during their terms of office.

Due to the ties of England with Bordeaux, vintners were among the more important people in London during the 14th and early 15th centuries, with four mayors of London being vintners under the reign of Edward II.

He is one of probably a very small number of mayors to have ever crowd-surfed, diving from the stage during a " Rock for Democracy " event at the popular Minneapolis club First Avenue in July 2004.

According to Geneive Abdo IRGC members were appointed " as ambassadors, mayors, cabinet ministers, and high-ranking officials at state-run economic institutions " during the administration of president Ahmadinejad Appointments in 2009 by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have given " hard-liners " in the guard " unprecedented power " and included " some of the most feared and brutal men in Iran.

On June 18, 1981 during a luncheon for the US Conference of Mayors in Washington DC, President Reagan mistook Pierce as one of the mayors on the dais, with the famous Hello, Mr. Mayor, comment.

After serving as a tax commissioner for the New York provincial government during the French and Indian War, Low married Margarita Cuyler in 1760, a scion of the powerful Schuyler family, whose brother and father were both mayors of Albany.

In the 1986 general elections ( during which the indirect election of mayors, governors and other posts was still valid ), it expected to gain 5 % of the vote, but received 1. 4 %.

His time as its mayor came during a 1929 change to the city charter giving mayors a four year term which he was the first to serve.

In 741 he and his brother Carloman succeeded their father, Charles Martel, as mayors of the palace and de facto rulers of the kingdom during an interregnum ( 737 – 743 ).

This structure was replaced during the 1980s by the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts in what Anchorage called " Project 80s ", a large-scale civic improvement program carried out under mayors George M. Sullivan and Tony Knowles.

During the 56 years to come, he would remain behind the scenes, yet had undeniable power in the political life of Albany, determining patronage and essentially ruling the city during the administrations of mayors William Hackett, John Boyd Thacher II and most notably Erastus Corning 2nd.

His grandfather and uncle were mayors of Bolton, Lancashire, and were pioneers in cotton spinning manufacture during the 1850s and 1860s.

The mayors of the city during this period were directly appointed by the Minister of the Interior, usually those nominated by these military, political and religious authorities.

During the same period there were also mayors of the borough of whom the best known is William Wade ( fl.

A scholarly study of America ’ s mayors, The American Mayor, ranked Cisneros as one of the 15 best mayors in the nation in a period that spanned the 20th century.

After the military dictatorship of 1967-1974, Kamatero has almost exclusively elected left-wing mayors, with the exception of the 1974-1978 period, right after the junta.

During the guerilla period, Corella had four mayors closely succeeding each other.

With the establishment of the government under the United States of America, Don Domingo Damatan was appointed as the first “ presidente municipal .” During the Commonwealth, or transitory period before independence the town had the following elected municipal mayors: Guillermo Blas and Federico Acio.

Hereunder are the mayors who followed him in the subsequent elections with the corresponding period of their incumbency, to wit:

Notably, the Japanese period saw Sikatuna with three mayors.

Seven magistrates ( Schöffen ) who, like the mayors, had to possess wealth in the town or the county, and ten common councillors put forward two candidates for the office of town mayor ( Stadtbürgermeister ) and two for that of county mayor ( Landbürgermeister ) for a period of office of one year, but they were elected only by the magistrates, who actually ran the administration of the town, whilst the council only fulfilled representative functions.

In this period, Wegberg effectively had two mayors.

The terms of office for president, vice president, and congressional deputies were reduced from five years to four years ; for Supreme Court justices from six years to five years, and increased the terms of mayors and city councils from 30 months to four years.

Under the decentralization plan, regulatory responsibilities were transferred from the central government to mayors and other municipal officials on the assumption that local officials would provide better oversight.

They were all mayors of Haarlem and their names were Anthony van Styrum ( 1679-1756 ), who also served in the admiralty of Amsterdam, Pieter van der Camer ( 1666-1747 ), who commissioned his own commemorative medal to celebrate 50 years in the service of the vroedschap of Haarlem in 1743, Jan van Dyck, and Cornelis Ascanius van Sypesteyn ( 1694-1744 ), who himself was a collector of medals and who lived at Brederode.

The kings, even strong-willed men like Dagobert II and Chilperic II, were not the main agents of political conflicts, leaving this role to their mayors of the palace, who increasingly substituted their own interest for their king's.

They had chairmen, not mayors as boroughs and cities had ; many legislative provisions ( such as burial and land subdivision control ) were different for the counties.

For years, members of the J ' abari tribe were the mayors of Hebron.

In addition to the normal government of the settlement, there were two mayors ( magistri ), and a six member college ( seviri Augustales ), which was entrusted with supporting the imperial cult.

In August – September 1998, elections were held for urban council members, who subsequently elected their mayors.

" Earlier the deputy mayors were on the castle of the Counts of Hainaut, and now it is only the conciergerier, Saint-Calixte chapel and some underground rooms and the chamber.

The first Austrasian mayors were drawn from the Pippinid family, which was to experience a slow, but steady ascent until it eventually displaced the Merovingian on the throne.

In 1847 – 49, California was run by the U. S. military ; local government continued to be run by alcaldes ( mayors ) in most places ; but now some were Americans.

Many prominent members of the PAN ( Manuel Clouthier, Addy Joaquín Coldwell and Demetrio Sodi ), most of the PRD ( most notably all three Mexico City mayors Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Marcelo Ebrard ), the PVEM ( Jorge González Torres ) and New Alliance ( Roberto Campa ) were once members of the PRI, including many presidential candidates from the opposition ( Clouthier, López Obrador, Cárdenas, González Torres, Campa and Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, among many others ).

Until 1965 there were also municipal mayors ( kommunalborgmästare ), who had these non-political administrative tasks in smaller cities without a magistrates ' court or " magistrat ".

In the 19th century there were even three mayors.

Ten children were born to the couple, two of which-Tom and Roger Pryor-later served as mayors of the town.

The mayors from 1903 on were Patrick Moore, Jack Dempsey, Dr. R. E.

Two especially long-serving mayors were Clifford Armhold and Warren F. Adams.

After decades of former governmental stability, in the 2000s the town made headlines repeatedly as two of its recent mayors were embroiled in clashes with the town council.

There were six councilors, four of which were aldermen and two mayors.

: At the close of the 20th century, according to the National Italian American Foundation, 82 of the 1, 000 largest cities had mayors of Italian descent, and 166 college and university presidents were of Italian descent.

Before there were mayors in California, there were burgesses, the first of whom was Solomon Sibbitt.