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Bogota, New Jersey

Pat Schuber, served for four years as Mayor of Bogota, represented the district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1982 to 1990 and served 12 years as the County Executive of Bergen County.

Catskill Mountain Railroad

On October 4, 2012, Ulster County Executive Michael P. Hein announced in his 2013 budget a plan to dismantle 32 miles of railroad in Ulster County to be replaced by a trail, leaving only the Phoenicia-Cold Brook segment, and ending Kingston operations.

Celebration of Lights

In September 2012, Chief Executive of Allegheny County Rich Fitzgerald announced that he was cancelling the Celebration of Lights due to inability to find corporate sponsorship.

Ed Rutkowski

In 1979, he became the County Executive of Erie County, New York, succeeeding Edward Regan, who stepped down to become New York State Comptroller.

George Reinke

George Reinke (December 27, 1914 – September 22, 2009) was the first elected County Executive of Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.

Henry F. Zwack

Henry F. Zwack (born December 5, 1952) is a lawyer and politician, most notable for having served as Rensselaer County, New York county executive and as an Acting New York State Supreme Court Justice.

Janet S. Owens

Janet S. Owens (born February 18, 1944, in Lothian, Maryland) is an American politician and Democrat who served as County Executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, for two terms, from 1998 until 2007.

Leah Vukmir

Vukmir was first elected in November 2002, succeeding Scott Walker (R), who was elected in a special election as Milwaukee County Executive.

Otto Junkermann

In 2011, he ran as a "fake Democrat" candidate in the Democratic primary against former Brown County Executive Nancy Nusbaum in the preamble to the recall election against Senator Robert Cowles.

Rose Marie Heck

Heck had been elected in 1991 to fill the assembly seat vacated by Pat Schuber stepped down to serve as County Executive of Bergen County.

Ulster County, New York

Two years later, Mike Hein, the last appointed county administrator, became Ulster's first elected county executive.


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2009 Pittsburgh police shootings

Guests at the ceremony included FBI Director Robert Mueller; Allegheny County District Attorney Steven Zappala; county executive Dan Onorato; Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell; state Attorney General Tom Corbett; U.S. Senator Bob Casey; former Pittsburgh Police Chief Nathan Harper;and former chief Robert McNeilly.

Al Dekdebrun

He sought the office of Erie County executive in 1975, but lost to incumbent Edward Regan.

Automation Alley

The genesis of Automation Alley can be traced back to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson’s 1997 State of the County address, where Patterson unveiled his vision for leveraging the combined strength of the county's high-tech companies into a national marketing strategy that could be used as a tool to attract skilled talent and cutting-edge businesses.

Baltimore County Police Department

Baltimore County Executive, James T. Smith, Jr. nominated Johnson for the position of Police Chief upon the exit of Sheridan.

Charlie Dooley

In a difficult mid-term election season for Democrats, Dooley was elected to serve a second full term as County Executive in 2010, defeating the Republican nominee, Bill Corrigan, 51.1% to 46.7%, with the Libertarian candidate receiving 2.2% of the vote.

Ellicott City Jail

In 1975 a separate division was created by County Executive Edward L. Cochran.

Fort Lawton Riot

King County Executive Ron Sims and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels organized a tribute to the Fort Lawton defendants and surviving families, featuring a dinner, a parade, a formal military ceremony and a Catholic mass honoring the memory of Guglielmo Olivotto.

Governorship of George Pataki

It is reported that he considered Secretary of State Randy Daniels and Erie County Executive Joel Giambra for lieutenant governor.

Gregory Kline

As of May 2005, Kline's only donations to political campaigns were to his own, Terry Gilleland and Tony McConkey for delegate and Dirk Haire for County Executive, all Republican candidates.

Hilliard P. Jenkins

Jenkins served in other leadership roles with the Mobile-Baldwin Area Boy Scouts of America, the Baldwin County Mental Health Board, the Baldwin County Executive Committee, and the Alabama Selective Service Board.

Howard County Department of Planning and Zoning

J. Hugh Nichols Member of the Planning Commission (1968-1968) Nichols was later County Executive, and foreign energy consultant.

Inwood, New York

Inwood was the birthplace of Nassau County's first County Executive, J. Russell Sprague as well as Olympian Ray Barbuti.

Irma Clark-Coleman

Beginning in 1967, Clark-Coleman held a variety of positions in Wayne County government; starting as a stenographer, and eventually serving as Assistant Director for Public Information to the county Road Commission, Media Relations Manager for Wayne County Executive William Lucas, Press Secretary to County Executive Ed McNamara and Director of Human Relations.

John Mulroy

John H. Mulroy, the first county executive of Onondaga County, New York

Montgomery County Police Department

However, in December 1994, Edwards was relieved of his position by Montgomery County Executive Douglas M. Duncan, who had taken office that same month, a move which angered the local chapter of the NAACP.

New York's 25th congressional district election, 2008

After it appeared he might run unopposed in the general election, on April 2 Republican Dale Sweetland, coming off a narrowly unsuccessful September 2007 bid for Onondaga County Executive, announced he'd oppose Maffei.

Northfield, New Jersey

Dennis Levinson, County Executive of Atlantic County who served on the Northfield council before his election to the Board of Chosen Freeholders.

Odd–even rationing

A few days later on November 8, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, along with Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, instituted an odd-even rationing system due to gasoline shortages from Hurricane Sandy.

Old Bethpage Village Restoration

In February 2009, Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi proposed closing all county parks including Old Bethpage in order to reduce the county deficit.

Patrick J. Foye

Foye was Deputy County Executive for Economic Development under Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano.

Perry Hall, Maryland

Its greatest accomplishment came on September 8, 1963, when Baltimore County Executive Spiro Agnew and other officials dedicated the new Perry Hall library on Belair Road.

Peter J. Schmitt

Schmitt died suddenly on October 3, 2012, aged 62, of a heart attack during a conference with County Executive Ed Mangano.

Prometa

However, it was subsequently revealed that county executive John Ladenburg, state legislator Dennis Flannigan, and officials at the treatment center had bought Hythiam stock.

Richard J. Phelps

In 1988, Phelps ran in a special election for the office of Dane County, Wisconsin County Executive against Joe Wineke.

Robert Dorigo Jones

In 1985, Dorigo Jones graduated from James Madison College at Michigan State University and went to work as a speechwriter for Wayne County Executive and future Michigan gubernatorial candidate, William Lucas.

Sainte Marie among the Iroquois

This is due to the Onondaga County Parks, led by the Parks Commissioner William Lansley, County Executive Joanne Moahoney, and retiring Onondaga County Legislature Chair James Rhinehart seeking to turn half of the second floor display area into rentable offices for the Onondaga County Soil & Water Conservation District.

Snoqualmie River

On August 8, 2007, U.S. Representative Dave Reichert (WA-08), King County Executive Ron Sims, and others announced a proposal to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness to include the valley of the Pratt River, a tributary of the Middle Fork, near the town of North Bend.

Thomas Suozzi

Democratic Party bosses long favored Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, but Suozzi prevailed in the primary and was elected to Nassau County Executive, the first Democrat in that office since Eugene Nickerson left it in 1971, and just the second Democrat in the post-World War II era.

He was first elected to the post of county executive in 2001, the first Democratic county executive since Eugene Nickerson left office in 1971.

Vincent Leibell

After a long career in the New York State Legislature, Leibell ran for and was elected county executive in 2010, but resigned prior to taking office following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which led to his arrest and subsequent conviction on federal corruption charges.

Will County, Illinois

The County Executive, County Clerk, Coroner, Auditor, Treasurer, Recorder of Deeds, State's Attorney and Sheriff are all elected in a countywide vote.