Mayor of St. Louis: Difference between revisions

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==Elections==

 

Under the original [[municipal charter|city charter]], the mayor was elected to a one-year term. Terms became two years under the 1859 city charter.<ref name="Oliver">{{cite web|url=http://exhibits.slpl.org/mayors/data/dt42815532.asp |title=St. Louis Mayors: Oliver D. Filley |publisher=[[St. Louis Public Library]] |access-date=2008-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107070539/http://exhibits.slpl.org/mayors/data/dt42815532.asp |archive-date=2009-01-07 }}</ref> The mayor's office was extended to its present four-year term after passage of the Charter and Scheme in 1876 which separated the City of St. Louis from [[St. Louis County, Missouri|St. Louis County]].<ref name="Henry">{{cite web|url=http://exhibits.slpl.org/mayors/data/dt47812949.asp |title=St. Louis Mayors: Henry Overstolz |publisher=[[St. Louis Public Library]] |access-date=2008-07-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720181018/http://exhibits.slpl.org/mayors/data/dt47812949.asp |archive-date=2011-07-20 }}</ref>

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* '''F.''' {{note|OFilley}} Oliver Filley's second term was the first mayoral term to last 2 years.<ref name="Oliver"/>

* '''G.''' {{note|Taylor}} Daniel G. Taylor was the candidate of a one-time coalition of traditional Missouri Democrats, pro-slavery activists, and secessionists calling itself the "Union Anti-Black Republican" ticket. The coalition was suspicious of the Abolitionist platform of the Republican party, and argued that St. Louis should not be governed by "Black Abolitionists" who would support newly elected President Lincoln in acting, including the use of military force, to prevent secession of southern states. Mayor Taylor worked in concert with Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson, until Jackson fled the state capitol to establish a Confederate aligned state government-in-exile. Mayor Taylor then cooperated with the new conservative-Unionist Governor, Hamilton Gamble.

* '''I.''' {{note|Cronenbold}} As president of the Board of Common Council, Cronenbold acted as mayor following the resignation of Chauncey Filley.

* '''J.''' {{note label|died|I|a}}{{note label|died|I|b}} Died in office.

* '''Q.''' {{note|Kaufmann}} As president of the Board of Aldermen, Kaufmann became mayor following the death of William Becker. He was later elected mayor, in a special mayoral election in November 1944, to fill Becker's unexpired term.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E7D8123BF936A25751C0A962948260&sec=&spon= |title= Aloys P. Kaufmann |date= 1984-02-15 |work= [[The New York Times]] |access-date=2008-07-17}}</ref>

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==References==

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