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Mayors Of Savannah, Georgia
The mayor is the highest elected official in Savannah, Georgia. Since its incorporation in 1789, the city has had 67 mayors. On May 27, 1958, the term for mayor was extended from two years to four years by popular vote and with approval of the state government. Election for mayor is held every four years, and is held as a non-partisan election. List ;Notes † Deceased/murdered in office. See also * Savannah, Georgia * Timeline of Savannah, Georgia * Garden City, Georgia * List of mayors of Garden City, Georgia * List of mayors of Atlanta * List of mayors of Augusta, Georgia * List of mayors of Columbus, Georgia * List of mayors of Macon, Georgia Footnotes {{Savannah, Georgia Savannah, Georgia Savannah ( ) is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, Chatham County. Established in 1733 on the Savannah River, the city of Savannah became the Kingdom of Great Brita ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Van R
A van is a type of road vehicle used for transporting goods or people. There is some variation in the scope of the word across the different English-speaking countries. The smallest vans, microvans, are used for transporting either goods or people in tiny quantities. Mini MPVs, compact MPVs, and Multi-purpose vehicle, MPVs are all small vans usually used for transporting people in small quantities. Larger vans with passenger seats are used for institutional purposes, such as transporting students. Larger vans with only front seats are often used for business purposes, to carry goods and equipment. Specially equipped vans are used by television stations as mobile studios. Postal services and courier companies use large step vans to deliver packages. Word origin and usage Van meaning a type of vehicle arose as a contraction of the word Caravan (towed trailer), caravan. The earliest records of a van as a vehicle in English are in the mid-19th century, meaning a covered wagon fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Harris (mayor)
Charles Harris (1772 – March 17, 1827) was a British-born lawyer who emigrated to the United States. He served two-and-a-half terms as mayor of Savannah, Georgia. He was also a slave owner. Savannah's Harris Street is named for him, as is Harris County, Georgia. Life and career Harris was born in England in 1772 to William Harris, a barrister and first cousin to Lord Malmesbury, and Elizabeth Dymock. After being educated in France, he emigrated to the United States at the age of sixteen, settling in Savannah, Georgia, where he studied law under Samuel Stirk. He opened is own practice in 1793. In 1798, he married Catherine McCauley McIntosh, youngest daughter of American Revolutionary War hero Lachlan McIntosh. They had three known children: Sarah Elizabeth (1809), Catherine Virginia (1811) and McIntosh (1814). Sarah died at the age of 20 or 21, Catherine died aged four, and McIntosh after eighteen days. After serving as an alderman in 1801, Harris served as mayor of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Thorne Williams
William T. Williams (1785–1868) was an American politician who served as mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1828–1830, 1833–1834, 1841–1842, and 1843–1844). Biography Williams was born in 1785 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He moved to Savannah where he worked as a printer, bookbinder, and operated a bookstore. In 1813, he became a member of the Chatham Artillery. In 1825, he was elected alderman and then was elected mayor in 1828 serving two terms until 1830. After mayor George Owen resigned on July 11, 1833, Williams completed the remainder of his term and then was again elected to a one-year term as mayor on September 9, 1833. He served as mayor for an additional two terms (1841–1842, and 1843–1844). He died in 1868. He served as a curator for the Georgia Historical Society The Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is a statewide historical society in Georgia, United States. Headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, GHS is one of the oldest historical organizations in the Unit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Webber Jackson
Joseph Webber Jackson (December 6, 1796 – September 29, 1854) was an American politician and lawyer from the state of Georgia who served in the United States Congress. Early life Jackson was born in Cedar Hill, Georgia, near Savannah. He studied law, gained admittance to the state bar and became a practicing attorney. Career Jackson served on the Savannah municipal council and also as the city's Mayor. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives and then in the Georgia Senate. Jackson served as a captain in the Savannah Volunteer Guards and also as a colonel of the 1st Regiment in the Georgia Militia in addition to serving as judge of the superior court of Georgia. Jackson was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat to fill remainder of the term for the seat left vacant in Georgia's 1st congressional district in the 31st United States Congress The 31st United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacksonian Democracy
Jacksonian democracy, also known as Jacksonianism, was a 19th-century political ideology in the United States that restructured a number of federal institutions. Originating with the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson and his supporters, it became the nation's dominant political worldview for a generation. The term itself was in active use by the 1830s. This era, called the Jacksonian Era or Second Party System by List of historians, historians and List of political scientists, political scientists, lasted roughly from 1828 United States presidential election, Jackson's 1828 presidential election until the Slavery in the United States, practice of slavery became the dominant issue with the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854 and the political repercussions of the American Civil War dramatically reshaped American politics. It emerged when the long-dominant Democratic-Republican Party became factionalized around the 1824 United States presidential election, 1824 pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Daniell (mayor)
William Daniell (1769–1837) was an English landscape and marine painter, and printmaker, notable for his work in aquatint. He travelled extensively in India in the company of his uncle Thomas Daniell, with whom he collaborated on one of the finest illustrated works of the period – ''Oriental Scenery.'' He later travelled around the coastline of Britain to paint watercolours for the equally ambitious book ''A Voyage Round Great Britain.'' His work was exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution and he became a Royal Academician in 1822. Early life William Daniell was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. His father was a bricklayer and owner of a public house called The Swan in nearby Chertsey. Daniell's future was dramatically changed when he was sent to live with his uncle, the landscape artist Thomas Daniell (1749–1840) after his father's premature death in 1779. In 1784 William accompanied his uncle to India, who worked there on a series of prints, ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Morrison (mayor)
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James Moore Wayne
James Moore Wayne (1790 – July 5, 1867) was an American attorney, judge and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1835 to 1867. He previously served as the sixteenth mayor of Savannah, Georgia, from 1817 to 1819 and the member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's at-large congressional district from 1829 to 1835, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Andrew Jackson. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Early life Wayne was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1790. He was the son of Richard Wayne, who came to America in 1760, and married Elizabeth (née Clifford) Wayne on September 14, 1769. James' mother died in 1804 when James was fourteen years old. His sister Mary Wayne, wife of Richard Stites, was the great-grandmother of Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA. She was also the 2nd great-grandmother of governor Endicott Peabody. After completing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Charlton (mayor)
Thomas Usher Pulaski Charlton (November 1779 – December 21, 1835) was an American writer and public servant in Savannah, Georgia, United States. He was the city's mayor for two terms. He was the second in a line of six Thomas Charltons, five of whom were physicians. Savannah's Charlton Street is named in his honor. Life and career Charlton was born in November 1779 in Camden, South Carolina, to Thomas Charlton Sr. and Lucy Kenan. He was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1800, and by the age of 21 he was a member of the Georgia State Legislature. Charlton became judge of the Eastern Circuit in 1808. In 1809, Charlton's book, ''The Life of Major General James Jackson'', was published. He was a close friend of both Jackson and governor John Milledge. He was mayor of Savannah, Georgia, between 1815 and 1817, then 1819 to 1821. Charlton was married three times. His first two wives, Emily Walter (married 1803) and Ellen Glasco, each died at young ages. His third wife, Clemen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Jones (U
George Glenn Jones (September 12, 1931 – April 26, 2013) was an American country musician, singer, and songwriter. He achieved international fame for a long list of hit records, and is well known for his distinctive voice and phrasing. For the last two decades of his life, Jones is frequently referred to as "the greatest country singer", "The Rolls-Royce of Country Music", and had more than 160 chart singles to his name from 1955 until his death in 2013. He served in the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1953. In 1959, Jones recorded " White Lightning", written by The Big Bopper, which launched his career as a singer. Years of alcoholism compromised his health and led to his missing many performances, earning him the nickname "No Show Jones." Jones died in 2013, aged 81, from hypoxic respiratory failure. Life and career Early years (1931–1953) George Glenn Jones was born on September 12, 1931, in Saratoga, Texas, and was raised with a brother and five si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mendenhall (mayor)
Thomas Mendenhall may refer to: * Thomas Corwin Mendenhall Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (October 4, 1841 – March 23, 1924) was an American autodidact physicist and meteorologist. He was the first professor hired at Ohio State University in 1873 and the superintendent of the United States Coast and Geodeti ... (1841–1924), American physicist and meteorologist * Thomas C. Mendenhall (historian) (1910–1998), Yale professor, president of Smith College, and authority on collegiate rowing {{hndis, Mendenhall, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mendenhall, Jr
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