Dallas is a city in Texas and the most populous in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex,the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the most populous city in and seat of Dallas County with portions extending into Collin,Denton,Kaufman,and Rockwall counties. With a 2020 census population of 1,304,379,it is the ninth-most populous city in the U.S. and the third-most populous city in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region,the city of Dallas is the largest city of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link to the sea.
Dallas County is the second-most populous county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 U.S. census,the population was 2,613,539,making it the ninth-most populous county in the country. Dallas County is included in the Dallas-Arlington-Fort Worth metropolitan statistical area—colloquially referred to as the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. Municipal expansion within Dallas County has blurred the geographic lines between cities and between neighboring counties.
Annette Louise Greenfield Strauss was an American philanthropist and politician who served as the 55th mayor of Dallas. The Annette Strauss Artist Square in the Arts District of downtown Dallas,Texas is named in honor of her. She was the second female mayor and the second Jewish mayor of Dallas. She was also the first woman elected to the post in her own right;Harrison served as a caretaker for the last months of Wes Wise's term after Wise resigned to run for Congress.
Parkland Memorial Hospital is a public hospital in Dallas,Texas,United States. It is the main hospital of the Parkland Health &Hospital System and serves as Dallas County's public hospital. It is located within the Southwestern Medical District. The hospital is staffed by the faculty,residents,and medical students of UT Southwestern Medical Center.
The Stemmons Corridor or Lower Stemmons is a stretch of industrial and commercial property in northwest Dallas,Texas (USA). From downtown north,Interstate 35E (I-35E) is known as the Stemmons Freeway,named so for Leslie Stemmons by his son,John M. Stemmons. It lies north of downtown,west of Oak Lawn,east of the Trinity River and Irving,and south of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. The area has a considerable amount of hotels and office towers. Property in the district accounts for 20% of Dallas' tax base. I-35E in Dallas Texas is currently the widest freeway in the DFW area with 16 total lanes,10 lanes of high speed freeway with 6 lanes of access roads,stretching from the Woodall Rodgers Expressway in Downtown Dallas to the State Highway 183 split. I-35E is one of the most congested freeways in the country.
Tommy Joe Vandergriff was a politician from Texas. He served as Mayor of Arlington from 1951 to 1977,as a U.S. Representative from Texas's 26th congressional district from 1983 to 1985,and as County Judge of Tarrant County from 1991 to 2007. For the greater part of his life,Vandergriff was a Democrat,but he became a Republican around 1990.
James Henry "Red" Duke,Jr. was a trauma surgeon and professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center,where he worked on-site since 1972. He was instrumental in introducing Memorial Hermann's Life Flight program and bringing a level I trauma center to Houston.
Kermit Edward Krantz was a surgeon,inventor and faculty member at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is most known as the co-developer of the Marshall-Marchetti-Krantz (MMK),a medical procedure for stress urinary incontinence which he performed over 5000 times. He served as Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He was largely credited with desegregating the maternity ward of that hospital in the 1960s.
Earl Forrest Rose was an American forensic pathologist,professor of medicine,and lecturer of law. Rose was the medical examiner for Dallas County,Texas,at the time of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy and he performed autopsies on J. D. Tippit,Lee Harvey Oswald,and Jack Ruby. After being shoved by Kennedy's aides,he stepped aside and allowed Kennedy's body to be removed from Parkland Memorial Hospital without performing an autopsy.
The 2015 United States elections were held on Tuesday,November 3. The off-year election included a special election for Speaker of the House. There were also gubernatorial and state legislative elections in a few states;as well as numerous citizen initiatives,mayoral races,and a variety of other local offices on the ballot.
Michael R. Williams is an American osteopathic physician and the current chancellor of the University of North Texas System. On November 29,2021,Williams - the sixth president of the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth,Texas - was appointed by the University of North Texas System Board of Regents as the fifth UNT System Chancellor,effective Jan. 1,2022 succeeding Lesa Roe.
Roscoe DeWitt was an American architect. He designed many buildings in Texas,including houses,libraries,hospitals,schools,churches and several buildings on the campus of Southern Methodist University.
Robert "Bob" Folsom was mayor of Dallas from 1976 until 1981. His power base was in Dallas' business establishment.
Steven R. Goldstein is an inventor,author and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at NYU School of Medicine. He is the director of NYU’s Gynecological Ultrasound and the co-director of the Bone Densitometry and Body Composition Unit.
Jeff Williams is an American businessman and a politician. He was the 30th mayor of Arlington,Texas,having been elected in 2015 after defeating incumbent Robert Cluck. He was last re-elected in 2019,serving until June 2021.
CareFlite is a nonprofit ambulance service based in Grand Prairie,Texas which operates throughout North and Central Texas. CareFlite's original namesake service is helicopter air ambulance,though today it also performs fixed-wing and ground transport.
Robert Nelson McClelland was an American surgeon. In 1963,he worked unsuccessfully to save the life of U.S. President John F. Kennedy after he was fatally shot,and two days later,the life of Kennedy's assassin,Lee Harvey Oswald.
Emerson Emory was an American internist and psychiatrist from Dallas,Texas. Aspiring to be a doctor from an early age,he attended Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College before serving in the Quartermaster Corps of the United States Army during World War II. After studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Meharry Medical College in Nashville,Tennessee,Emory conducted his residency at St. Paul's Hospital,which was the first major hospital in Dallas to grant staff privileges to African American doctors.
Mercy Amua-Quarshie is a Ghanaian obstetrician-gynecologist in Dallas,Texas. She earned the Berlex Labs award for best OBGYN teaching resident while completing her OBGYN residency at Boston Medical Center/Boston University.
Elections are currently every two years to elect the mayor of Arlington,Texas.
