Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department was created by a city ordinance on March 15, 1916. When it was created it had two parks, Hermann Park and Sam Houston Park. As of 2010 the department maintains about 350 developed parks and 200 esplanades and greenspaces inside and outside of the City of Houston. [48] [49]
John Harris Whitmire (born August 13, 1949) [2] is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd mayor of Houston, the most populous city in Texas, since 2024. A member of the Democratic Party , Whitmire was previously a member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1973 until 1983, and the Texas State Senate from 1983 to 2023.
Houston City Charter: Salary: $236,189 (2019) Website: Official website: Elections in Texas; ... Democratic 62 2016–2024 Sylvester Turner Democratic 61 2010–2016
Whitmire will replace term-limited Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner; Jackson Lee falls short in effort to become first Black woman leader of city. HOUSTON (AP) — Houston elected Democratic state ...
Houston elected Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire as its next mayor on Saturday night, elevating a Texas lawmaker who has represented the city for 50 years by giving him a victory over U.S. Rep ...
It also deepens a high-stakes rift between Texas’ largest city, ... The state was able to take over the district under a change in state law that Houston Democratic state Rep. Harold Dutton Jr ...
This is a list of mayors of the 50 largest cities in the United States, ordered by their populations as of July 1, 2022, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau. [1] [2] These 50 cities have a combined population of 49.6 million, or 15% of the national population.
Texas state Sen. John Whitmire will be Houston’s next mayor, NBC News projects. ... a fellow Democrat, in a runoff election Saturday to lead the fourth-largest city by population in the U.S.