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unusual facts about Mayor of Philadelphia



Girard Academic Music Program

The Concert Choir has performed for United States President Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, the Philadelphia Phillies, Mayor of Philadelphia John Street, and many other local political and district officials.

John E. Reyburn

He was again elected to Congress to fill the vacancy left by the death of Robert Adams, Jr. and was reelected in 1906 to the 60th United States Congress, serving from November 6, 1906, to March 31, 1907, when he resigned to serve as elected Mayor of Philadelphia.

United States Senate election in Pennsylvania, 1980

After he was defeated in a 1967 run for Mayor of Philadelphia, Specter was defeated in his bid for a third term as district attorney.

William J. Green, III

He declined to run in the 1978 gubernatorial election but won the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Philadelphia in 1979, defeating runner-up Charles Bowser, former deputy mayor.

Woody Wagenhorst

After graduating in 1892, he became a private secretary for Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and later Mayor of Philadelphia, John E. Reyburn.


see also

Fishbourne

William Fishbourn (also spelled Fishbourne), a mayor of Philadelphia

James Tate

James Hugh Joseph Tate (1910–1983), Irish-American politician, mayor of Philadelphia

Maria Louisa Bustill

He moved into Philadelphia where he built a business as a baker and married Elizabeth Morrey, a woman of mixed ancestry who was the granddaughter of Humphrey Morrey, the first mayor of Philadelphia.

Mary Willing Byrd

Her father, Charles Willing, was the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1748 to 1754, and her great-grandfather, Edward Shippen, was the second mayor of Philadelphia from 1701 to 1703.

Matthew Lawler

Matthew Lawler (January 1, 1755 – July 14, 1831) was a mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, serving four one-year terms from 1801 to 1805.

Nicholas Upsall

In 1694, Edward Shippen, the first mayor of Philadelphia under the city charter, gave a piece of land for a Friends Meeting House.

Plumsted

William Plumsted, 18th century mayor of Philadelphia, son of Clement Plumsted

Samuel Howell Ashbridge

Samuel Howell Ashbridge (December 5, 1848 in Philadelphia – March 1, 1906) was the mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from April 3, 1899 to April 5, 1903.

William Fishbourn

William Fishbourn or Fishbourne (June 25, 1677 in Talbot, Maryland – May 27, 1742 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a wealthy merchant and mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for three one-year terms, 1719 to 1722.

William Meehan

The Philadelphia Republican Party, in the wake of the political realignmemt in Philadelphia politics starting with the Home Rule Charter in 1951 and the election of "reform" Democrats, Richardson Dilworth and Joseph S. Clark as Mayor of Philadelphia, entered a period of gradual and persistent decline, after having dominated the city's politics for a century prior to home rule.