Henry R. Luscher was a

Mobile, Alabama Mobile ( , ) is a city and the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States. The population within the city limits was 187,041 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, down from 195,111 at the 2010 United States census, 2010 cens ...

-area community leader and politician who served two terms as the city's Public Safety Commissioner and several stints as the city's Mayor. All of his terms as

Mayor of Mobile This is a list of mayors, or persons holding the equivalent office, of Mobile, Alabama, United States. When Mobile came into the United States, it operated under a government system where the chief executive was called "President" Presidents of ...

were when the title was co-extensive with the presidency of the City Commission. He was defeated for re-election in 1961 by challenger

George E. McNally George Edward McNally (December 24, 1923 — December 16, 1987) was an American lawyer, soldier, politician and bureaucrat. Born and educated in Illinois, he became a community leader in Mobile, Alabama and its first Republican mayor electe ...

, the first open Republican elected to office in Mobile since Reconstruction. Luscher had also served as King of the Mobile Carnival Association during his youth.

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World Statesmen list of Mayors of Mobile
Year of birth unknown Mayors of Mobile, Alabama {{Alabama-mayor-stub