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Joseph Sill Clark Jr. (October 21, 1901 – January 12, 1990) was an American writer, lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 90th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1952 to 1956 and as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1969.
Thomas J. Gibbons (1904–1988), was the Philadelphia Police Department Commissioner appointed by Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr. in 1952 and retired in 1960. He was described as "incorruptible" and a "lone wolf" for his intense efforts against La Cosa Nostra, specifically Angelo Bruno, and the corrupt police officers who supported it.
In 2018, the Philadelphia Police Department's Gun Violence Reduction Task Force was founded within the Detective Bureau. The Task Force was created to focus on violent offenders & prior convicts (felons) in possession of firearms. In 2019, 72 Philadelphia police officers are taken off street duty over racist and hateful Facebook posts. [26]
Joseph S. Clark Jr. and Richardson Dilworth, two of the main movers for the charter reform, were elected mayor and district attorney, respectively. Led by local party chairman James A. Finnegan , the Democrats also took fourteen of seventeen city council seats, and all of the citywide offices on the ballot.
Joseph S. Clark Jr. James H. Duff: Party Democratic: Republican: Popular vote 2,268,641: 2,250,671 ... a former Philadelphia mayor in the challenger, Clark, and the ...
Philadelphia's municipal election of November 3, 1953, was the second held under the city charter of 1951 and represented the first test of the Democratic city government of Mayor Joseph S. Clark Jr. In the 1951 election , the voters had elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in 67 years, breaking the Republican hold on political power ...
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USS G-4 at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard in Philadelphia in October 1912 Mounted police clashing with strikers, one carrying an American flag, outside the Westinghouse electrical plant in Philadelphia in 1946 Joseph S. Clark Jr., Philadelphia's mayor from 1952 until 1956