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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) is the police department of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States, which includes the City of Charlotte.With 1,817 officers and 525 civilian staff as of 2020, covering an area of 438 square miles (1,130 km 2) with a population of 1,000,000+, it is the largest police department between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia.
One of the areas of policy that Mayor Vi Lyles focuses her efforts on is the expansion of Charlotte because it is one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation. [20] To connect the different areas of the city, Lyles alongside the Charlotte Area Transit System, opened a 19-mile light rail transit line. [20]
Richard A. Vinroot (born April 14, 1941) is an American politician and attorney from Charlotte, North Carolina. He served as the 52nd Mayor of Charlotte from 1991 to 1995. Vinroot ran unsuccessfully for Governor of North Carolina in 1996, 2000 and 2004. The City of Charlotte's Richard Vinroot International Achievement Award is named in his honor.
Julie Eiselt (born February 17, 1961) [1] is the current mayor pro tem of Charlotte, North Carolina, an office she has held since December 4, 2017. Eiselt was elected by her colleagues on the Charlotte City Council to this position at the beginning of her second term. She succeeded Vi Lyles, who took office as Mayor of Charlotte that same day. [2]
The Charlotte City Council is the legislative body of the City of Charlotte and forms part of a council–manager system of government. The Council is made up of eleven members and the Mayor, all elected to two-year terms in odd-numbered years. Four Council Members are elected at-large with the other seven representing districts. Though elected ...
On November 5, 2013, he was elected as the mayor of Charlotte with approximately 53 percent of the vote. [5] He was sworn in as mayor on December 2, 2013, at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. [6] At the time of his election as mayor, Cannon was a member of the Charlotte City Council and Mayor Pro Tempore. [7]
He was first elected in 2007 and served two terms on city council until 2011. He ran in the 2012 in the Ninth Congressional District's Republican primary placing third out of eleven candidates on the ballot. He was the Republican nominee for mayor of Charlotte in 2013 and 2015.
Douglas was born in Iredell County, North Carolina on September 3, 1894. He served in the United States Army during World War I.. In 1946 Ben Douglas founded Douglas Furs, after Franklin D. Roosevelt asked a personal favor of Ben Sr. – to find a way to clean the fleece-lined fur-trimmed flight jackets for the soldiers flying in the then current war in Europe.