Tom Hanafan | |
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Mayor of Council Bluffs | |
In office January 4, 1988 [1] –January 2, 2014 [2] | |
Succeeded by | Matt Walsh |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | University of South Dakota |
Tom P. Hanafan is the former mayor of Council Bluffs,Iowa and is a past president of the Iowa League of Cities. [3] [4]
Hanafan graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School. While in high school,he played football and baseball and worked a number of different jobs including delivering newspapers,cleaning windows and cleaning an ice cream truck. After graduating high school,he received a scholarship to football at the University of South Dakota. During the summer,he would go back home to work for his dad at the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha. [5]
Hanafan is the son of Robert and Evelyn Hanafan. He has two sisters,Nancy and Barbara,and a younger brother,Mike. In 1969,he married his wife Shirley. [5]
Hanafan is memorialised in the Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park in Council Bluffs,Iowa,along the Missouri River at the foot of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge,directly across from downtown Omaha,Nebraska. [6]