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- Description:
- Detroit's newly-elected mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh poses with Michigan governor John B. Swainson and Swainson's wife Alice at Cavanagh's inauguration reception; a crowd of supporters is in the background.
- Notes:
- Collection located at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. To schedule an appointment to view the original image, order high resolution copies, or seek permission to use an image, contact the Walter P. Reuther Library Audiovisual Department at reutherreference@wayne.edu., Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, and This metadata was created by Wayne State University Library system based on original description by the Walter P. Reuther Library
- Date Issued:
- 1962-01-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Wayne State University. Libraries and Walter P. Reuther Library
- Collection:
- Virtual Motor City
- Notes:
- Progressive Republican. Reputed to have begun career as a professional gambler, by 1890s the "Deacon" owned Grand Rapids' minor league baseball team. In 1897 began brokerage business which some called a "bucket shop." Popular with common people, often detested by the wealthy. In 1917 opened private bank in which many depositors lost money when he died.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Attended Ottawa Hills High School, Grand Rapids Junior College and Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids. Owner of family paint and home improvement business. Active in neighborhood business organizations, and promoted neighborhood business development during tenure in office. Elected in first attempt at public office.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Republican. A pioneer doctor and druggist who arrived in 1835 and eventually grew wealthy from practice and from investments in business and real estate. Noted as a surgeon and early specialist in gynecology. Helped found U.B.A. (Blodgett) Hospital.
- Date Created:
- 1855-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Born in Grand Rapids. University of Michigan All-American football player and team captain in 1922. Operated local sporting goods business. Leader of Citizen's Action, group that opposed Welsh in 1949. Defeated by Veldman in 1954, but re-elected mayor in 1956. Served as UofM Regent and Delegate to Michigan Constitutional Convention 1961-1962.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Republican. Barry County native and University of Michigan graduate who became lawyer and moved here in 1872. Appointed successively assistant prosecuting attorney for Kent County, Grand Rapids city attorney, and county prosecuting attorney. As mayor he contended with problems of the 1893 Panic. In 1905 was elected Superior Court Judge.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Photograph of Mayor Karel buying first poppy from Miss Stewart, daughter of the late General Stewart, taken on City Hall steps. Head to knees shot of a girl in a warm belted coat and a close-fitted hat placing a poppy in the buttonhole of a hatless man in 3-piece suit and tie. The pretty, dark-haired girl is wearing a poppy on her coat lapel, and a large button on her coat pocket that says “American Legion Auxiliary Poppy”. Behind the two subjects to the right of the image is an ivy covered wall, and to the left are some steps.
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Republican. Elected on "Citizen's Ticket" of his party and Democrats united against the Greenbackers. Born in Belgium, educated in France, came to Grand Rapids in 1856. Began as merchant, later went into lumber trade. As president of Board of Public Works in 1890s, worked for street improvements.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Republican. Drafted to run for mayor two days before election when his party's candidate died suddenly, and still won by city's then-largest recorded margin. For many years was a partner in local bookstores. Appointed Grand Rapids postmaster in 1912, and after leaving office in 1914 was a prominent real estate developer.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Collection:
- Mayors of Grand Rapids digital collection
- Notes:
- Group portrait of City officials including Mayor Paul Goebel and City Clerk R. Stanton Kilpatrick.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)