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Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County,Iowa,United States. Located along the Mississippi River on the eastern border of the state,it is the largest of the Quad Cities,a metropolitan area with a population of 384,324 and a combined statistical area population of 474,019,ranking as the 147th-largest MSA and 91st-largest CSA in the nation. According to the 2020 census,the city had a population of 101,724,making it Iowa's third-most populous city after Des Moines and Cedar Rapids. Davenport was founded on May 14,1836,by Antoine Le Claire and named for his friend George Davenport.
Bettendorf is a city in Scott County,Iowa,United States. It is the 15th largest city of Iowa and the third-largest city in the "Quad Cities". It is part of the Davenport–Moline–Rock Island,IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 39,102 at the 2020 census.
The Diocese of Davenport is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction,or diocese,of the Catholic Church for the southeastern quarter of the state of Iowa in the United States.
William E. Gluba is a former American politician who served as mayor of Davenport,Iowa from 2008 to 2016. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
KLJB is a television station licensed to Davenport,Iowa,United States,serving as the Fox affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting,which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Nexstar Media Group,owner of Rock Island,Illinois–licensed CBS affiliate WHBF-TV and Burlington,Iowa–licensed CW owned-and-operated station KGCW,for the provision of certain services. The three stations share studios in the Telco Building on 18th Street in downtown Rock Island;KLJB's transmitter is located near Orion,Illinois.
Martin John Amos is an American Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Cleveland from 2001 to 2006. He was previously Bishop of Davenport from 2006 to 2017.
St. Ambrose University (SAU) is a private Catholic university in Davenport,Iowa. It was founded as a school of commerce for young men in 1882.
Carl H. Meinberg was a 20th-century Catholic priest in the United States who served as the seventh president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport,Iowa,from 1937 to 1940. He is included by the Diocese of Davenport on a list of credibly accused abusers for the alleged abuse of at least four minors.
Henry Vollmer was an attorney,the mayor of Davenport,Iowa,and a Democratic U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district. Winning a special election in 1914,he served just over one year in Congress.
Joseph Reed Lane was an attorney and a one-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 2nd congressional district at the close of the 19th century.
African Americans in Davenport,Iowa comprise the third-largest black community in Iowa,with a history that precedes the Civil War.
Davenport City Hall is the official seat of government for the city of Davenport,Iowa,United States. The building was constructed in 1895 and is situated on the northeast corner of the intersection of Harrison Street and West Fourth Street in Downtown Davenport. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 1993. In 2020 it was included as a contributing property in the Davenport Downtown Commercial Historic District.
Oakdale Memorial Gardens,formerly Oakdale Cemetery,is located in east-central Davenport,Iowa. It contains a section for the burial of pets called the Love of Animals Petland. In 2015,the cemetery was listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places,and as a local landmark on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties. It is also listed on the Network to Freedom,a National Park Service registry for sites associated with the Underground Railroad.
U.S. Highway 67 (US 67) is a U.S. Highway in extreme eastern Iowa. The route begins in Davenport at the Rock Island Centennial Bridge where it crosses the Mississippi River and ends at an intersection with US 52 and Iowa Highway 64 (Iowa 64) west of Sabula. It passes through Bettendorf,Le Claire,and Clinton. Except for Folletts,every community which US 67 enters sits along the Mississippi River. As such,most of the route is part of the Great River Road,an All-American Road.
U.S. Highway 61 (US 61) is a United States Highway that serves eastern Iowa. It enters the state from Missouri near Keokuk with US 136. North of Keokuk,it is overlapped by US 218 for a few miles. It the follows the course of the Mississippi River past Montrose and Fort Madison. It meets US 34 at Burlington. It passes through Wapello and bypasses Muscatine and Blue Grass on its way toward Davenport. There,it follows Interstate 280 (I-280) and I-80 around the Quad Cities. North of Davenport,it follows a freeway north toward DeWitt where it meets US 30. The highway continues north through Maquoketa and reaches the Dubuque area. There it is joined by US 151 and briefly by US 52. The two highways enter the downtown area on an expressway. Due to the proximity of the Mississippi River and railroad tracks that lie between,the routes have an indirect junction with US 20. The two highways leave the state and enter Wisconsin about one-half mile (800 m) north of the Illinois–Wisconsin state line.
The Davenport Community School District is a public school district in Scott County,Iowa. The school district covers 109 square miles (280 km2) that includes the city of Davenport,where it is based,and the western Scott County communities of Blue Grass,Buffalo and Walcott in addition to a small section of Muscatine County. Founded in 1858,it established one of the first publicly-funded high schools in the United States,the third teachers’training school,and hired the first female superintendent in the country. It serves nearly 16,000 students in 32 school buildings.
The 44th District of the Iowa House of Representatives in the state of Iowa. It's currently composed of part of Polk County.
The First National Bank of Davenport,also known as Brenton Bank and The Brenton,is a historic building located in central Davenport,Iowa,United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. It is significant for its associations with the history of community planning and development,and as an important example of modernistic design.
Lawrence C. "Pops" Harrison was an American basketball coach and administrator. He was the head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes from 1942 to 1950.
Ronald J. Kinzer was an American politician who served in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1997 to 1999 as a Democrat from District 44.
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- 1 2 "Neil Harrison". Quad-City Times. 2 February 1996. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
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