Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is located in the southern part of East Tennessee on the border with Georgia. As of the 2020 census,the population was 366,207,making it the fourth-most populous county in Tennessee. Its county seat is Chattanooga,located along the Tennessee River. The county was named for Alexander Hamilton,the first Secretary of the Treasury.
A recall election is a procedure by which,in certain polities,voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. Recalls,which are initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition,have a history dating back to the constitution in ancient Athenian democracy and feature in several current constitutions. In indirect or representative democracy,people's representatives are elected and these representatives serve for a specific period of time. However,where the facility to recall exists,if any representative comes to be perceived as not properly discharging their responsibilities,they can be called back with the written request of a specific number or proportion of voters. Even where they are legally available,recall elections are only commonly held in a small number of countries including the United States,Peru,Ecuador,and Japan. They are considered by groups such as ACE Electoral Knowledge Network the most rarely used form of direct democracy.
The mayor of the City of Los Angeles is the official head and chief executive officer of Los Angeles. The officeholder is elected for a four-year term and is limited to serving no more than two terms.
Zachary Paul Wamp is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 3rd congressional district from 1995 to 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district is based in Chattanooga and includes large parts of East Tennessee,including Oak Ridge.
The mayor of the City of San Diego is the official head and chief executive officer of the U.S. city of San Diego,California. The mayor has the duty to enforce and execute the laws enacted by the San Diego City Council,the legislative branch. The mayor serves a four-year term and is limited to two successive terms.
Carleton "Carty" S. Finkbeiner is an American Democratic politician and former mayor of Toledo,Ohio. First elected in 1993,he took office on January 1,1994. In 1997,he defeated challenger Nick Wichowski to win a second term. Term limits prevented him from running a third consecutive time. He was succeeded by former mayor Jack Ford in 2002. Following his first administration,Finkbeiner served on the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board. He joined the ABC affiliate in Toledo and hosted Carty &Company,a Sunday morning public affairs show. He also contributed a weekly editorial segment,It's Just Not Right! Finkbeiner left WTVG in May 2005.
The government of Detroit,Michigan is run by a mayor,the nine-member Detroit City Council,the eleven-member Board of Police Commissioners,and a clerk. All of these officers are elected on a nonpartisan ballot,with the exception of four of the police commissioners,who are appointed by the mayor. Detroit has a "strong mayoral" system,with the mayor approving departmental appointments. The council approves budgets,but the mayor is not obligated to adhere to any earmarking. The city clerk supervises elections and is formally charged with the maintenance of municipal records. City ordinances and substantially large contracts must be approved by the council.
A. L. “Chunk”Bender was the mayor of the City of Chattanooga,Tennessee from 1969 to 1971 after serving as Commissioner for many years. Due to health problems he declined a re-election bid. While the office of mayor in Chattanooga is officially non-partisan,he was a member of the Democratic Party.
Robert L. Waiz,Jr is a politician of Jeffersonville,Indiana. He works in real estate and has been on the city council and served as mayor. Waiz,a Democrat,was first elected mayor in 2003,defeating two-term incumbent Tom Galligan in the May Democratic primary and then defeating Republican Monty Snelling in the November general election. On May 8,2007,he lost the Democrat primary against Galligan;who went on to win the general election in November 2007. Rob Waiz was the youngest mayor elected in the city's modern history.
Andrew Lawrence Berke is an American attorney and politician from Tennessee. He served as the mayor of Chattanooga from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented Hamilton and Marion counties in the 10th district as a state senator from 2007 to 2012. On March 5,2013,he became Chattanooga's mayor-elect,winning more than 72% of the vote,and he was inaugurated on April 15,2013. Berke was reelected on March 7,2017,and served until April 19,2021,when he was succeeded by Tim Kelly. On October 6,2022,President Joe Biden appointed Berke to serve as administrator of the Rural Utilities Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Chattanooga,Tennessee,United States.
Chris Anderson is an American politician and Democratic Party political activist. He was a member of the Chattanooga,Tennessee City Council for District 7,but was defeated in a run-off election on April 11,2017. He was the first openly LGBT individual to be elected to Chattanooga's City Council. He also serves as a member of the Tennessee Democratic Party State Executive Committee.
Brown v. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Chattanooga,722 F. Supp. 380,was the restructuring of the election process of Chattanooga's Board of Commissioners due to its unconstitutionality as it contradicted Section 2 of the Federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. Filed by twelve citizens in November 1987 under the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee,Southern Division,the case provided for a more equally distributed representation of the citizens,particularly the city's minority groups,of Chattanooga,TN.
Peter Rudolph "Rudy" Olgiati was the 55th Mayor of Chattanooga,Tennessee from 1951 to 1963. During his time in office,Olgiati oversaw the arrival of the interstate highway,the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement,and the city's first urban renewal project. He is often accused of being one of Chattanooga's last political bosses. He is also the namesake of Chattanooga's P.R. Olgiati Bridge.
The 2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next Governor of Tennessee. The primaries took place on August 2,with Republican Bill Lee and Democrat Karl Dean winning their respective party nominations.
A recall election in the state of Wisconsin is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended.
The 2019 United States elections were held,in large part,on Tuesday,November 5,2019. This off-year election included gubernatorial elections in Kentucky,Louisiana,and Mississippi;regularly-scheduled state legislative elections in Louisiana,Mississippi,Virginia,and New Jersey;and special elections for seats in various state legislatures. Numerous citizen initiatives,mayoral races,and a variety of other local elections also occurred. Three special elections to the United States House of Representatives also took place in 2019 as a result of vacancies.
Jasiel F. Correia II is a former mayor of Fall River,Massachusetts. He was arrested twice on charges related to fraud and extortion while in office. Defeated in the November 2019 mayoral election,his term expired on January 6,2020. In May 2021,Correia was convicted of multiple federal charges in a trial held in Boston;on September 21,2021,Correia was sentenced to six years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. On April 22,2022,Correia reported to the Federal Correctional Institution,Berlin,New Hampshire to begin serving his six-year sentence.
Leirion Gaylor Baird is an American politician. She is the current mayor of Lincoln,Nebraska where she previously served as a city councilwoman,elected in 2019.
The 2021 Seattle City Council 3rd district recall election was held on December 7,2021. Kshama Sawant,a member of the Seattle City Council from the 3rd district,defeated an attempt to recall her. This was the first recall election held in Seattle since the one held against Mayor Wesley C. Uhlman in 1975,and the first for a city councilor in the city's history.
