Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County,California,United States. The city was incorporated on August 7,1905,and has a city council. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region,Richmond borders San Pablo,Albany,El Cerrito and Pinole in addition to the unincorporated communities of North Richmond,Hasford Heights,Kensington,El Sobrante,Bayview-Montalvin Manor,Tara Hills,and East Richmond Heights,and for a short distance San Francisco on Red Rock Island in the San Francisco Bay.
The Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) is a community/political group in Richmond,western Contra Costa County,California,United States. Its mission is to unite the left regardless of political party and was founded by Gayle McLaughlin and Marilyn Langlois.
James Donald Griffin was an American politician who served in the New York State Senate and then for 16 years as the Mayor of Buffalo,New York (1978–93). He later returned to public life serving as a member of the Buffalo Common Council.
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.
Brian Setencich served in the California Assembly for one term from 1994 to 1996 and as Speaker of that body from September 14,1995,to January 4,1996. Setencich,a Republican,was the first freshman legislator to serve as Speaker of the Assembly in more than a century. He was previously a city councilman in Fresno and played professional basketball in Europe.
Karl L. Rundberg was an American businessman and politician. He was notable as a Los Angeles City Council member between 1957 and 1965. He was convicted of accepting a bribe in 1967 when a member of the city's Harbor Commission and was placed on probation. The conviction was reversed by a higher court.
Jim Rogers is an American politician. He served on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in the 1990s,and was a city council member for the city of Richmond,California for three terms. He was first elected to the city council in 2002,and his final term expired in January 2015. He is a Democrat,considered a moderate,and has also been referred to as a progressive. He was called the San Francisco Bay Area's most famous lawyer because of television ads in which he dubbed himself as "The People's Lawyer".
The Richmond City Council is the governing body for the city of Richmond,California. The council consists of the Mayor of Richmond and six other city council members,one designated Vice Mayor. The council members are all elected from the whole city;no members are elected by district or ward. The council members are elected to four-year terms,as opposed to the previous six-year terms. They are not all elected at once. The council members meet every first and third Tuesday of the month and,if necessary,hold special meetings on the remaining Tuesdays. Presently the entire city council is Democratic.
John E. Márquez is an American politician and activist who has held various positions in Richmond,California city government. For eighteen years,Márquez served as a city councilman. He was the first Latino to serve on the Richmond City Council. Originally he was an appointee to the council in 1985 and won an election to that seat in 1987;he subsequently lost his second bid in 1991. He was elected again in 1993 and twice more in 1997 and 2004. In 1990 and 1998,he served as vice mayor. Márquez was defeated for re-election in 2008,and lost a mayoral bid in 2001 to Gayle McLaughlin. In addition to his elected offices in the city of Richmond,he has held various other positions in Contra Costa County,California on various commissions.
Thomas King Butt is an American politician and architect and the former mayor of Richmond,California. He was vice-mayor in 2002 and 2012 and a member of the Richmond City Council for over 20 years before being elected mayor. He is the longest continuously serving council member in Richmond's history.
Harpreet Singh Sandhu is an Indian American politician and community activist from Richmond,California and one of the most prominent ones of the Sikh religion. He was the first Asian and the first Sikh city councilman in Richmond,and one of only a few Sikhs to hold office in the United States.
James Francis Kenney is an American politician who served as the 99th mayor of Philadelphia from 2016 to 2024. Kenney was first elected on November 3,2015,defeating his Republican rival Melissa Murray Bailey after winning the crowded Democratic primary contest by a landslide on May 19.
John Gioia is an American politician. He has served on the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors in Contra Costa County,California since 1998 and was re-elected three times. He served as chair in 2002,2006 and 2010. John Gioia is a Democrat. Contra Costa supervisorial seats are non-partisan.
George Livingston was an American politician who served as the first elected African American Mayor of Richmond,California,from 1985 to 1993. Livingston was appointed Mayor in 1985 by the city council. He won election as Richmond's first elected African American mayor in 1989 for a full term.
Robert "Bob" Wasserman was an American politician and retired police chief,who served as the Mayor of Fremont,California,from 2004 to 2011. He has been credited with integrating Fremont's economy and workforce into the larger Silicon Valley during his tenures as mayor and a city councilman.
Willis Lincoln Blair was a Canadian politician and public servant who was mayor of the Metropolitan Toronto municipality of East York,Ontario,from 1973 to 1976 and chairman of the Liquor Licensing Board of Ontario from 1981 to 1986.
Barbara Jane Halliday is the mayor of Hayward,California,elected to the office by a plurality in the June 3,2014 California primary election. Halliday was a city council member for 10 years prior to her election as mayor. She follows Michael Sweeney,who declined to seek the office in 2014. Halliday has a B.A. in American studies from Mary Washington College,then associated with the University of Virginia. She pursued graduate work in journalism and urban studies at the University of Maryland. She has worked as a writer/editor for the Cecil Whig in Maryland,and for a California insurance company,retiring from that position in 2008 after 29 years. Her term began in July 2014.
Ivy Ruth Taylor is the former Mayor of San Antonio,Texas from 2014 through 2017,and the former president of Rust College in Holly Springs,Mississippi from 2017 through 2023. The former politician and urban planner was a nonpartisan officeholder,although she is registered as a Democrat. She was also the first African American to be elected mayor of San Antonio and only the second woman in that position. In addition,Taylor was the first female African-American mayor of a city with a population of more than one million.
On May 9,2015,the city of San Antonio,Texas,held an election to choose the next Mayor of San Antonio. Interim mayor Ivy Taylor ran for election to a full term and narrowly defeated former state senator Leticia Van de Putte in the runoff election on June 13,2015,to become the first African American elected to the position.
The 2018 California State Senate elections were held on Tuesday,November 6,2018,with the primary election being held on June 5,2018. Voters in the 20 even-numbered districts of the California State Senate elected their representatives. The elections coincided with the elections of other offices,including for governor and the California State Assembly.
