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Arunan Arulampalam
Arunan Arulampalam (born September 15, 1985) is an American politician who is the mayor of Hartford, Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party, Arulampalam won the November 2023 election for mayor and was sworn in on January 1, 2024. Early life and career Arulampalam is from a Sri Lankan Tamil family from Jaffna. His parents fled Sri Lanka in July 1983, at the start of the Sri Lankan Civil War. They moved to England, where they married, and settled in Zimbabwe. Arunan was born in Bulawayo in 1985. The family relocated to California. Arulampalam earned his bachelor's degree from Emory University and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Quinnipiac University School of Law. In 2014, Arulampalam joined the law firm Updike, Kelly & Spellacy and was an associate with the firm for five years. Governor Ned Lamont appointed Arulampalam to be a deputy commissioner in the Department of Consumer Protection. In July 2021, he became the chief executive officer of the Hartford Land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Hartford, Connecticut
The following table lists the individuals who served as mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, their political party affiliations, and their dates in office, as well as other information.Kevin FloodMayors of Hartford HartfordHistory.net (retrieved April 26, 2015). History The city of Hartford switched from a mayor–council government to a council–manager government in 1947.H. George Frederickson, Gary Alan Johnson & Curtis H. Wood, ''The Adapted City: Institutional Dynamics and Structural Change'' (M.E. Sharpe: 2004), pp. 145–47. The mayor was chosen from among the city council until 1969, when the mayor began to be directly elected in partisan elections.Wendy L. Hassett, "Hartford: Politics Trumps Professionalism" in ''More Than Mayor or Manager: Campaigns to Change Form of Government in America's Large Cities'' (James H. Svara & Douglas J. Watson eds., Georgetown University Press: 2010), pp. 70–75. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there were three unsuccessful efforts to amend to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |