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Mayor Of Scranton
The Mayor of Scranton is the chief executive of the government of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as stipulated by the Charter of the City of Scranton. The current Mayor of Scranton is Democratic Party (US), Democrat Paige Cognetti. From 1866, mayors were elected by popular vote. List of mayors of Scranton References ;Sources Wenzel, David J. (2006). Scranton's Mayors. Eynon,PA: Tribute Books. {{ISBN, 09765072-6-9 Mayors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, * Lists of mayors of places in Pennsylvania, Scranton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paige Cognetti
Paige Gebhardt Cognetti is an American politician serving as the List of mayors of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 36th Mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania. She is the first woman to be mayor of the city and won her seat in a special election. A member of the Democratic Party, she ran her first Scranton mayoral campaign as an Independent. Early life Cognetti was born in Eugene, Oregon. She graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Arts, BA in English Literature and Romance Languages, and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. She started her career as an English teacher in Japan; and was a fundraiser for the Clinton and Obama 2008 campaigns and later served as an advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department. Political career Prior to Cognetti's run for Scranton mayor, she served as a director of the Scranton School Board as well as a special assistant to Pennsylvania's then state auditor, Eugene DePasquale. She has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scranton
Scranton is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, Lackawanna County. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census, Scranton is the largest city in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Wyoming Valley, and the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is List of cities and boroughs in Pennsylvania by population, the sixth largest city in Pennsylvania. The contiguous network of five cities and more than 40 boroughs all built in a straight line in Northeastern Pennsylvania's urban area act culturally and logistically as one continuous city, so while the city of Scranton itself is a smaller town, the larger unofficial city of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre contains nearly half a million residents in roughly 200 square miles. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is the cultural and economic center of a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
