Thomas A. Stith III is a North Carolina political figure. Stith was a member of the city council of Durham,North Carolina from 1999 to 2007. More recently,he has served as Program Director for Economic Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise,and then as North Carolina district director for the federal Small Business Administration. In December 2020,Stith was selected as the next president of the North Carolina Community College System.
Michael B. Coleman is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 52nd mayor of Columbus,Ohio. He was the first African-American to serve as the mayor of Ohio's capital city.
Ralph Bradley Miller is an American attorney and former U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 13th congressional district,serving from 2003 to 2013. District 13 included all of Caswell and Person counties,and parts of Alamance,Granville,Guilford,Rockingham and Wake counties. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
David Nicola Cicilline is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Rhode Island's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,he was the 36th mayor of Providence from 2003 to 2011,the first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capital.
Jerramiah T. Healy is an American local politician who served as the 48th mayor of Jersey City,New Jersey serving from 2004 to 2013. He ran for the unexpired term of the late Glenn D. Cunningham and was elected in November 2004. In the special election,he defeated Acting Mayor L. Harvey Smith. He was subsequently elected to a full term by a record landslide.
Michael Gahan Fahey is an American businessman who served as the 49th mayor of Omaha,Nebraska. He first took office on June 11,2001. Fahey won his second term as mayor in the May 10,2005 election. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition,a bi-partisan group with a stated goal of "making the public safer by getting illegal guns off the streets." The Coalition is co-chaired by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Charles Carpenter Meeker is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 34th Mayor of Raleigh,North Carolina. He was first elected in 2001 over Republican Paul Coble,and reelected for a fifth two-year term in 2009. A fifth term tied Meeker with Avery C. Upchurch as Raleigh's longest-serving mayor.
Joseph V. Doria Jr. is an American Democratic Party politician,who served as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs in the cabinet of Governor Jon Corzine from 2007 until his resignation in July 2009. He is a former Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly,State Senator for the 31st Legislative District,and a former Mayor of Bayonne,a position he held from July 1998 to October 2007.
Frank George Jackson is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 56th Mayor of Cleveland,Ohio from 2006 to 2022. He was first elected on November 8,2005,unseating incumbent Jane Campbell,and re-elected in 2009,2013,and 2017. Having served four full terms,he is the longest-serving mayor in Cleveland history. On May 6,2021,he announced he would not seek re-election in 2021.
Gerald David "Jerry" Jennings is an American former politician from the state of New York who was the 74th mayor of Albany. A Democrat,Jennings won five terms as mayor of Albany and served in that capacity for 20 years. At the time of his retirement in 2013,Jennings was the second longest tenured mayor in the city's history.
Gerald Robert "Jerry" Sanders is a former American politician and law enforcement officer from San Diego,California. He served as the 34th mayor of San Diego and was Chief of Police. As of December 2012,he is the president and CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Frank Ervin Melton was the mayor of Jackson,Mississippi,United States,from 4 July 2005 until his death on 7 May 2009. Melton,an African American,defeated the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson,Jr. Melton won 63 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary against Johnson,who had served two terms. Melton quickly swept into action to rid Jackson of drug-related crime,improve economic development,and improve city infrastructure. Since Melton became mayor,he touted economic-development projects totaling over $1.6 billion,creating at least 4,500 jobs in the city. Others pointed out that many of those projects were in the works when he started in office. He was embroiled in several controversies during his tenure,including questionable power breaches and criminal misdemeanor activity.
John DeStefano Jr. is an American politician who served as the 49th mayor of New Haven,Connecticut,from 1994 until 2014. He was the Democratic nominee in 2006 for Governor of Connecticut,unsuccessfully challenging incumbent Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. He was also the named defendant in the landmark 2009 U.S. Supreme Court case of Ricci v. DeStefano. John DeStefano is the son of a New Haven police officer. John and his wife Kathy DeStefano met at the University of Connecticut as undergraduates,where he also earned a Masters in Public Administration. Kathy DeStefano is a first grade teacher in West Haven,Connecticut,and they are the parents of two adult sons.
Thomas Michael Menino was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,from 1993 to 2014. He was the city's longest-serving mayor. He was elected mayor in 1993 after first serving three months in the position of "acting mayor" following the resignation of his predecessor Raymond Flynn. Before serving as mayor,Menino was a member of the Boston City Council and had been elected president of the City Council in 1993.
Thomas M. McMahon was the Mayor of Reading,Pennsylvania from January 5,2004 to January 2,2012.
The 2008 North Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 4,2008,coinciding with the presidential,U.S. Senate,U.S. House elections,Council of State and statewide judicial elections. Democrat Bev Perdue won the election. With a margin of 3.39%,this election was the closest race of the 2008 gubernatorial election cycle.
Everytown for Gun Safety is an American nonprofit organization which advocates for gun control and against gun violence. Everytown was formed in 2013 due to a merger between Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
Rudy Giuliani served as the 107th Mayor of New York City from January 1,1994 until December 31,2001.
Crime in Chicago has been tracked by the Chicago Police Department's Bureau of Records since the beginning of the 20th century. The city's overall crime rate,especially the violent crime rate,is higher than the US average. Gangs in Chicago have a role in the city's crime rate. The number of homicides in Chicago hit a 25-year high in 2021.
The 2021 Durham,North Carolina mayoral election was held on November 2,2021,to elect the next mayor of Durham,North Carolina.
