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John Swift was the first mayor to be elected directly by the people in the 1840 Philadelphia mayoral election. The term of office for the mayor was extended to two years in 1854, to three years in 1861, and to four years in 1885. The Act of 1885 also prohibited mayors from succeeding themselves. [4]
Cherelle Lesley Parker (born September 9, 1972) [2] is an American politician who has served as the 100th mayor of Philadelphia since 2024. She is the first woman to hold the office.
James Francis Kenney (born August 7, 1958) is an American politician who served as the 99th mayor of Philadelphia from 2016 to 2024. Kenney was first elected on November 3, 2015, defeating his Republican rival Melissa Murray Bailey after winning the crowded Democratic primary contest by a landslide on May 19.
Cherelle Parker, who has held local and state office and first got involved in politics as a teenager, publicly swore her oath of office on Tuesday as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor, becoming the ...
Cherelle Parker has officially made history, becoming Philadelphia's 100th mayor and the first woman to ever take on the leadership role for the city.
The post Philadelphia’s mayor wants to increase the police budget, a move seen in other cities appeared first on TheGrio. During a budget presentation, Mayor Cherelle Parker announced a proposed ...
The 2023 Philadelphia mayoral election was held on November 7, 2023 to elect the mayor of Philadelphia. Nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties were selected through primaries on May 16, 2023. Incumbent Democratic mayor Jim Kenney was term limited and could not seek reelection to a third term.
Voters elected two women for the first time to lead Philadelphia and Pennsylvania’s second-largest county, installing Democrat Cherelle Parker as the 100th mayor of the state’s largest city ...