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Bob Cranmer – Allegheny County Commissioner; Justin Fairfax – Lieutenant Governor of Virginia; Bob Filner – San Diego Mayor; John F. Forward Sr. – 12th mayor of San Diego; John F. Forward Jr. – 21st mayor of San Diego; Barbara Hafer – first female Allegheny County Commissioner; E. W. Marland – Governor of Oklahoma; Elliot S. N ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2025 1 Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician ...
Thomas Gallagher (Transaction Mayor of Pittsburgh (1959)) David Leo Lawrence (Mayor of Pittsburgh (1946–59), Governor of Pennsylvania (1959–63) ) James McDevitt Magee (U.S. Representative) Joseph A. McArdle (U.S. Representative) Buck McGovern (Allegheny County Commissioner, and famous for nabbing and tracking down Biddle Boys and Mrs Soffel ...
The Air Brake Company employed 3,000 citizens from the surrounding Pittsburgh area, but its work force was composed almost entirely of individuals from Wilmerding. [18] The office buildings were used until the building was vacated in 1985. [15] It was then donated to the American Production and Inventory Control Society. [15]
Jay Fisette (GSPIA 1983) – member of Arlington County, Virginia's Board of Supervisors; David Frederick – appellate attorney who has argued more than 50 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States; George W. Guthrie (1866) – Mayor of Pittsburgh, 1906–1909; Ambassador to Japan; Melissa Hart (law degree) – U.S. Representative
The parents of young California tech whistleblower Suchir Balaji, whose 2024 death was ruled a suicide, are now suing the City and County of San Francisco. Big Tech whistleblower's parents sue ...
The Pittsburgh Courier was an African American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh from 1907 [1] until October 22, 1966. [2] By the 1930s, the Courier was one of the leading black newspapers in the United States. [3] [4] It was acquired in 1965 by John H. Sengstacke, a major black publisher and owner of the Chicago Defender.
Westinghouse High School served a diverse population of middle- and working-class individuals who lived in the Homewood neighborhood. [9] To relieve crowding at Peabody High School, the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education opened two new East End high schools in 1912, using Woolslair Elementary in Bloomfield and Baxter Elementary in Homewood as temporary locations while permanent buildings ...