http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/search?freeformQuery%3Dgovernment;expand%3Dsubject;f1-subject%3DCleveland%20(Ohio)%20--%20Officials%20and%20employees. Results for your query: freeformQuery=government;expand=subject;f1-subject=Cleveland (Ohio) -- Officials and employees. Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4046.xml Anthony J. Celebrezze (1910-1998) was an Ohio state senator (1950-1953), mayor of Cleveland (1953-1962), Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1962-1965), and federal judge for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (1965-1980). The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, honorary certificates and resolutions, publications, speeches, and scrapbooks, covering Celebrezze's political and judicial career, and relating to Cleveland's budgetary, city planning, civil defense, public transportation and urban renewal issues during the 1950s and 1960s, and to the anti-poverty, civil rights, education, and health insurance programs of Presidents Kennedy & Johnson. Includes correspondence of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Frank Lausche, Stephen M. Young, Michael DiSalle, Thomas Burke, Jack P. Russell, and Ralph Locher. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4046.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG353.xml Anthony J. Celebrezze (1910-1998) was an Ohio state senator (1950-1953), mayor of Cleveland (1953-1962), Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1962-1965), and federal judge for the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (1965-1980). The collection consists of individual and group portraits of Anthony J. Celebrezze, his family and friends, and governmental officials; candid and formal pictures of official functions in Cleveland and Washington, D.C.; and views of Cleveland and other areas of the United States. Included are portraits of John F Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy, Thomas P. O'Neill, John W. McCormack, Michael P. Feighan, and Charles A. Vanik. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/PG353.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4370.xml Carl Stokes (1927-1996) was the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, from 1967-1971. Stokes was the first African American mayor of a major American city and the first African American Democrat in the Ohio State Legislature, where he served three terms from 1962-1967. As mayor, Stokes launched a number of programs to alleviate the problems of urban decay. Chief among these was Cleveland: NOW!, a joint public and private program with plans to raise $177 million in its first two years to revitalize Cleveland. The program was discredited due to the Glenville Shootout in July, 1968. Under Stokes, Cleveland City Council passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Ordinance, and HUD resumed funding projects aiding in the construction of over 3,000 new low- and middle-income housing units. Stokes became a newscaster with NBC television in 1972, and returned to his law practice in Cleveland in 1980. In 1983, Stokes was elected a municipal court judge. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, and ne... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4370.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4504.xml Joseph H. Crowley was a Cleveland, Ohio, lawyer who served as attorney for the Cleveland Humane Society, Assistant Police Prosecutor, Assistant Law Director (1930-1938), Chief Counsel for the city of Cleveland (1938-1963), and, at various times, Cleveland Law Director. Crowley authored the three volume book "Ohio municipal law." The collection consists of personal and business correspondence, particularly relating to the publication of "Ohio municipal law", clippings, speech texts, periodicals, and a scrapbook highlighting Crowley's career. Included is some correspondence with Harold H. Burton. http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4504.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4456.xml Ralph J. Perk was the Cuyahoga County, Ohio auditor, 1963-1971, and mayor of Cleveland, 1972-1977. Perk, the first Republican mayor since 1941, faced big budget deficits which he covered with existing bond funds and general revenue sharing funds, as well as large federal grants from the Nixon administration. Nevertheless, city sewer and public transit systems had to be regionalized to raise operating capital. A Czech-American, Perk was seen as a national leader on ethnic issues. He retired from politics in 1977 after an unsuccessful campaign against John Glenn for the United States Senate in 1974 and a defeat in the 1977 nonpartisan mayoral primary. The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, financial records, reports, speeches, minutes, news releases, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, invitations, certificates, etc., pertaining to Perk's political career and public service. Mayoral records include voluminous correspondence and a subject file, as well as the records of various secretaries a... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4456.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5416.xml Carl Stokes, and his brother Louis, were groundbreaking African-American politicians from Cleveland, Ohio. Carl Stokes became the first black mayor of a major U.S. city when elected in 1967. Louis Stokes was the first African-American congressman from Ohio when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1968, a position he held for 15 consecutive terms. During Carl Stokes' two mayoral terms, city hall jobs were opened to blacks and women, and a number of urban renewal projects initiated. Between 1983 and 1994 Carl Stokes served as municipal judge, and in 1994 was appointed by President Clinton as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Seychelles. Louis Stokes began his career as a civil rights attorney and helped challenge the Ohio redistricting in 1965 that fragmented African-American voting strength. In 1967, Louis Stokes argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the Terry v. Ohio case, also known as the "stop-and-frisk" case. In the 1970s, Louis Stokes served as chair of the House Select Committe... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5416.xml Mon, 01 Jan 2018 12:00:00 GMT http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4852.xml Thomas Vail, son of attorney Herman L. Vail and Delia B. White, both members of prominent Cleveland families, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1926. Vail was educated at University School in Cleveland and Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton University in 1948. He joined his family business, the Forest City Publishing Company, and later transferred to its morning paper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In 1963, Vail assumed duties as publisher and editor of the Plain Dealer. For over twenty five years, Vail oversaw the transition of the Plain Dealer from the city's runner up publication to the largest daily and Sunday newspaper in Ohio. Vail retired from the paper in 1992. Vail was also active in other interests such as the Cleveland Foundation, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and was the co-founder of Cleveland Tomorrow, an organization formed in 1982 to promote economic growth. He was also president of the Cleveland Convention and active in the Visitor's Bureau and the Greater Cl... http://catalog.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4852.xml Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:00:00 GMT