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The uncompleted mayoral terms of Hoffman, Walker, and O'Dwyer were added to the other offices elected in (respectively) 1868, 1932, and 1950 [those three elections are listed as "special" in the table below because they occurred before the next regularly scheduled mayoral election; the "regular" mayoral elections of 1874 and 1913, on the other ...
An election for Mayor of New York City was held in November 1897. This election was held in connection with the consolidation of the City of Greater New York, which passed a public referendum on December 14, 1894, and was to be effective January 1, 1898. Thus, the winner of this election would serve as the first mayor of the consolidated city.
Although the New York City Charter extended mayoral terms to four years in 1897, the odd-year elections remained. Separately, the legislature also established unprecedented state commissions, appointed by the Governor, to oversee the Harlem Bridge, construction of Central Park and a new city hall, and oversight of harbor pilots, wharves, and piers.
An election for Mayor of New York City was held on November 4, 1892. Incumbent mayor Hugh J. Grant was re-elected to a second term in office over Aqueduct Commissioner Francis M. Scott, running on the New York County Democracy and People's Municipal League lines with Republican support.
An election for Mayor of New York City was held on November 6, 1888. Incumbent mayor Abram Hewitt, who had fallen out of favor with the Tammany Hall machine, ran on the reformist "New York County Democracy" ticket, but was defeated by Tammany favorite Hugh J. Grant. Hewitt finished third, narrowly behind Republican candidate Joel Erhardt. Grant ...
An election for Mayor of New York City was held on November 8, 1892. Incumbent mayor Hugh J. Grant was not a candidate for a third consecutive term in office. [1] He was succeeded by Thomas Francis Gilroy, who defeated Republican Edwin Einstein in a landslide. Gilroy's margin of victory "exceed[ed] by nearly 20,000 the greatest majority ...
Detroit's first Black mayor took office 50 years ago in January. One off-the-cuff line in his inaugural speech has been debated ever since. Flashback: What Coleman Young really meant when he said ...
1894 New York City mayoral election; 1897 New York City mayoral election; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...