Peter A. Clavelle is an American politician who served as the 38th and 40th mayor of Burlington,Vermont,and was the first member of a third party to hold the office since James Edmund Burke in 1935. Bernie Sanders also won several elections as an independent candidate in the 1980s,defeating both Republican and Democratic candidates. Sanders and Clavelle founded the Vermont Progressive Party during Sanders' time as mayor.
Terrill G. Bouricius is an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from the Chittenden-7-4 district from 1991 to 2001,as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party. Prior to his tenure in the state house,he served on the city council in Burlington,Vermont,from 1981 to 1991,from the 2nd district,and served as president of the city council.
Dean Russel Corren is an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from the Chittenden 7-3 district from 1993 to 2000,as an independent and member of the Progressive Coalition. He unsuccessfully ran for lieutenant governor of Vermont in 2014. Corren was the third member of the Progressive Party elected to the state legislature.
The 1988 United States House of Representatives election in Vermont was held on November 8,1988. Republican nominee Peter Plympton Smith defeated independent candidate Bernie Sanders and Democratic nominee Paul N. Poirier.
Cris Ericson is an American marijuana legalization activist and perennial candidate for public office in Vermont. She has unsuccessfully run for the governorship of Vermont nine times and for a seat in the United States Congress eight times.
The 1981 Burlington mayoral election was held March 3,1981. Bernie Sanders,who ran as an independent candidate,defeated incumbent Democratic Mayor Gordon Paquette,who was seeking a sixth term as Mayor of Burlington,Vermont,and Richard Bove.
The 1983 Burlington mayoral election was held March 1,1983. Incumbent Mayor Bernie Sanders won with 52.12% of the popular vote against Democratic nominee Judith Stephany and Republican nominee James Gilson.
The 1985 Burlington mayoral election was held March 5,1985. Incumbent Mayor Bernie Sanders won with 56.09% of the popular vote against Democratic nominee Brian D. Burns,independent Diane Gallagher,and various other minor candidates.
The 1987 Burlington mayoral election was held on March 3,1987. Incumbent Mayor Bernie Sanders won election to his fourth and final term as mayor with 55.23% of the popular vote against Democratic nominee Paul Lafayette,a member of the city council.
The 1989 Burlington mayoral election was held on March 3,1989. Incumbent Independent Mayor Bernie Sanders did not seek reelection to a fifth term. Peter Clavelle ran as an independent candidate,with the support of the Progressive Coalition,and defeated Democratic nominee Nancy Chioffi.
Carina Nicole Driscoll is an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from Chittenden County from 2001 to 2003,as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party. She also served on the city council in Burlington,Vermont,and unsuccessfully sought the city's mayoralty in the 2018 election.
Edward A. Keenan was an American politician who served as the 34th Mayor of Burlington,Vermont. Keenan was the last Republican elected to the mayoralty of Burlington until Peter C. Brownell was thirty years later.
Robert K. Bing was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 33rd Mayor of Burlington,Vermont.
Claude Douglas Cairns was an American politician who served as the 31st Mayor of Burlington,Vermont. His mayoral victory in 1957 ended eighteen years of Democratic control of Burlington's mayoralty since Republican Louis Fenner Dow left office in 1939.
Bernie Sanders served as the 37th Mayor of Burlington,Vermont,from April 6,1981,to April 4,1989. Sanders' administration was the first socialist one in New England since the mayoralty of Jasper McLevy. He was regarded as a successful mayor that instituted multiple economic policies in Burlington,and was selected as one of the twenty best mayors in the United States by U.S. News &World Report in 1987. He was active in foreign affairs,primarily in Latin America in which he criticized the policy of the United States and visited Cuba,Nicaragua,and the Soviet Union,and was criticized for it by his opponents.
Selene Colburn is an American politician currently serving in the Vermont House of Representatives from the Chittenden-6-4 district since 2017 as a member of the Vermont Progressive Party. Prior to her tenure in the State House she served on the city council in Burlington,Vermont. She is the first female chair of the House Progressive Caucus.
The 1991 Burlington mayoral election was held on March 3,1991 to elect the mayor of Burlington,Vermont. Incumbent independent Mayor Peter Clavelle ran as the candidate of the Progressive Coalition,and defeated Haik Bedrosian,Daniel Gregory,and Michael Hackett,who all ran as independent candidates. The Democratic and Republican parties did not run candidates in this election.
The 1993 Burlington mayoral election was held on March 2,1993. Republican nominee Peter Brownell defeated incumbent Progressive Coalition Mayor Peter Clavelle.
John Zampieri Jr. was an American politician who served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1965 to 1985,as a member of the Democratic Party. Following his tenure in the state house he served as director of the Vermont Buildings Division.
The 1995 Burlington mayoral election was held on March 7,1995. Progressive Coalition nominee Peter Clavelle,the former mayor who had lost reelection in the 1993 election,defeated incumbent Republican Mayor Peter Brownell,Democratic nominee Paul Lafayette,and other candidates.
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