James Lauritz Edlefsen (July 19,1874 –May 11,1948) served as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1936 to 1939.
Edlefsen was appointed mayor after his predecessor,Byron E. Hyatt,died in office in November 1936. He was elected to a full two-year term in 1937.
Boise is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. As of the 2020 census,there were 235,684 people residing in the city. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho,it is 41 miles (66 km) east of the Oregon border and 110 miles (177 km) north of the Nevada border. The downtown area's elevation is 2,704 feet (824 m) above sea level.
Boise High School is a public secondary school in Boise,Idaho,one of five traditional high schools within the city limits,four of which are in the Boise School District. A three-year comprehensive high school,Boise High is located on the outlying edge of the city's downtown business core. The enrollment for the 2014–15 school year was approximately 1,538.
David Harold Bieter is an American politician and attorney who served as mayor of Boise from 2004 to 2020. A Democrat,Bieter was the longest-serving mayor in the city's history. According to The New York Times,he was the only Basque-speaking mayor in the United States as of 2012. His father,Pat Bieter,was also a local politician who served in the Idaho House of Representatives.
Samuel Hubbard Hays was an American politician and attorney who served as the Idaho Attorney General from January 2,1899,until January 7,1901,and as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1916 to 1919.
Herbert Frederick Lemp served briefly as mayor of Boise,Idaho,before his death in May 1927.
Ross Cady (1884-1959) was an American politician from Idaho. Cady served briefly as mayor of Boise,Idaho in 1933.
John J. McCue served a single term as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1933 to 1935.
Byron Ernest Hyatt served as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1935 to 1936.
James Luther Straight served a single term as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1939 to 1941.
Henry Westerman Whillock was an American politician and television station general manager,who served on two occasions as mayor of Boise,Idaho,in the 1940s.
Austin Walker served as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1942 to 1945.
Samuel Spielman Griffin served briefly as mayor of Boise,Idaho,in 1945 and 1946.
Potter P. Howard served consecutive two-year terms as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1947 to 1951. An automobile dealer when elected,he was later an executive with the local natural gas company in Boise. Potter died in a Salt Lake City hotel while returning to Idaho from a business trip to Chicago.
Russell Elmer Edlefsen served four terms as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1951 to 1959. Elected to two-year terms,Edlefsen was the only person in to win four consecutive terms as Boise mayor until David H. Bieter accomplished the feat in 2015.
Ernest G. Eagleson was an American politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as mayor of Boise,Idaho,in the 1910s and 1920s.
Eugene Buren Sherman served two terms as mayor of Boise,Idaho,from 1921 to 1925.
Charles Himrod was an American politician who served four one-year terms as mayor of Boise,Idaho Territory,in the 1860s and 1870s. He was elected in 1869,1870 and 1878. The 1871 election winner,John Hailey,never took office,so he served that term as well.
James C. Hammond is the current mayor of Coeur d'Alene. Prior to his current office,he served as mayor of Post Falls,Idaho and was a Republican Idaho State Senator from 2006–2012,where he represented the 5th District. He is married to Cynthia Hammond and has three children:Sean,T.J.,and Kurt. He was elected as mayor of Coeur d'Alene in November 2021,and he has been portrayed as a moderate Republican.
Jason A. Monks is an American politician serving as a member of the Idaho House of Representatives from District 22.
Boise Junior High School,also known as North Junior High School,is an Art Deco,brick school designed by Tourtellotte &Hummel and constructed in Boise,Idaho,USA,in 1937. The school was included as a contributing property in the Fort Street Historic District on November 12,1982. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 17,1982.