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On March 5, 1795, the borough of Chester, which had been governed under the charter granted by William Penn in 1701, was incorporated by the Pennsylvania Assembly. [2] Chester was incorporated as a city on February 4, 1866 [3] with a mayor-council government system, consisting of a popularly elected city mayor and city council. The terms of the ...
Prior to that the position had been that of Mayor of Chester. [2] The Lord Mayoralty was given to Chester in recognition of its historical and economic importance. [3] In 2009 the role of Lord Mayor of Chester was combined with that of Chairman of Cheshire West and Chester Council, but the two roles were separated again in 2015. [4]
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The town's third mayor was Walter de Livet who was named as mayor in a royal decree from May 1246. [21] (Walter of Coventry and Walter de Livet may be the same person.) [22] During early Chester history, the mayor often held his position for 10 years or more; apparently the early mayor's terms were open-ended. [23]
There had previously been one Democratic mayor, Barbara Bohannan-Sheppard, since 1905. [6] In 2015, he unsuccessfully ran again for mayor against Democratic candidate Thaddeus Kirkland, who had defeated Linder in the primary. [7] In 2012, he was named by the Delaware County Council to serve a five-year term on the board of the Chester Water ...
Stefan Roots is an American politician currently serving as the Democratic mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania, since January 3, 2024.He defeated the incumbent Thaddeus Kirkland in the May 2023 Democratic mayoral primary and Anita J. Littleton in the November 2023 general election.
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In the 2015 Democratic mayoral primary, Kirkland defeated incumbent Mayor John Linder 1,818 to 721 [14] and then former mayor, Republican Wendell Butler Jr., in the election. Just before taking office on January 4, 2016, he promised to reduce violence in the city by improving the schools and police force and using body cameras.