Heather Fargo is an American politician who served as mayor and was a former City Council Member of Sacramento,California. She was sworn in as mayor in November 2000,replacing Jimmie R. Yee,and served until December 2008,when she was defeated for reelection by Kevin Johnson.
Gregory James Nickels is an American politician who served as the 51st mayor of Seattle,Washington. He took office on January 1,2002,and was reelected to a second term in 2005. In August 2009,Nickels finished third in the primary election for Seattle mayor,failing to qualify for the November 2009 general election,and losing his bid for a third term as mayor. He left office on January 1,2010.
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.
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 57th 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.
David J. Cieslewicz,commonly referred to as Mayor Dave during his term,is an American politician who was the mayor of Madison,Wisconsin from 2003 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Douglas Harold Palmer is a former politician who was the first African-American mayor of Trenton,New Jersey.
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.
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.
Marty Blum is the former mayor of Santa Barbara,California,a city of 92,000. She was born in Illinois and attended Purdue University,later receiving a JD at Loyola University. Blum moved to Santa Barbara in 1968 with her husband Joe,a physician. Prior to her political career,she practiced law on the South Coast.
Dennis Walaker was an American politician who served as 34th mayor of Fargo,North Dakota. He was elected to a four-year term on June 13,2006,and took office on June 28,2006. He was re-elected twice during municipal elections held on June 8,2010,and June 10,2014. Walaker died in office during his third term as mayor. His deputy mayor,Tim Mahoney,served as mayor for the remainder of Mayor Walaker's final term.
Bill Baarsma is an American politician and academic who served as the 37th mayor of Tacoma,Washington from 2001 to 2009.
Mario Domingo Barletta is an Argentine hydraulic engineer and politician. He served as mayor of Santa Fe,Argentina from 2007 to 2011,and was elected President of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) in 2011. Since 2021,he has been a National Deputy.
Carl Trujillo is an American politician who served as member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.
Javier Gonzales was an American politician who served as the 42nd mayor of Santa Fe from 2014 to 2018. Gonzales was the city's first and only openly gay mayor. He held the office of Santa Fe County Commissioner,serving two terms. Soon after,he was elected as the first Hispanic president to the National Association of Counties. Upon assuming the mayorship of Santa Fe,he was chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.
Samuel W. Pick is an American businessman and politician. He served as the mayor of Santa Fe,New Mexico from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1986 to 1994.
Joseph Maestas is an American politician and engineer who is the current Auditor of New Mexico. He previously served as a member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. Elected in 2020,he assumed office on January 1,2021,succeeding Valerie Espinoza. He announced his candidacy for State Auditor on July 19,2021. He was elected in 2022 and assumed office in January 2023,succeeding Brian Colón.
The Alachua County Labor Coalition (ACLC) is a nonprofit organization in Alachua County,Florida,that advocates for working people. The organization was formerly known as the Alachua County Labor Party and traces its roots to the national Labor Party's call in 1996 for a new political party as a reaction to the conservative,neoliberal New Democrat movement.
