Lord Mayors and Sheriffs
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Ahmad - Riaz ..... U.K ..... FIRST Asian mayor in Oldham, Lancashire, when appointed in May 2002
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Boswell N K ..... U.S.A ..... member of the vigilante group which helped to clean up the town of Laramie in Wyoming in the late 1860s and became its FIRST Sheriff. Within a year law and order had been established and in 1872 the FIRST Territorial Prison was built there
Brown - Melville C .. U.S.A ..... FIRST Mayor of Laramie City in Wyoming, he was elected in June 1868 but only lasted three weeks due to intimidation by the criminal element in the town
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Davies - William ..... U.K ..... died December 2001 ..... FIRST Labour Mayor of Knutsford, Cheshire, in its 700 year history
Dinkins - David ..... U.S.A ..... born 1927 ..... in January 1990 he became New York's FIRST black mayor
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Ganti - Harvey .. U.S.A ..... FIRST black mayor of Charlotte in America and also the FIRST black person ever nominated to run for the Senate as a Democrat in the South
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Jabbar - Abdul .. U.K ..... FIRST Bangladeshi-born Mayor outside London when appointed in Oldham in 2004
Johnson - Boris .. London's FIRST Tory mayor was elected in May 2008
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Khan - Mohammed Afzal .. U.K ..... Manchester's FIRST Asian Lord Mayor - 2005
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Mallick - Professor Sir Netar ..... U.K ..... in 2002 he became the FIRST Asian High Sheriff of Manchester, England
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Perkins - Joe .. U.S.A ..... in 2000, he became the FIRST black mayor for the civil rights town on Selma, Alabama, 35 years after the town became synonymous with America's civil rights movement
Portman - Christopher .. U.S.A ..... aged 19 years in 2002 and the FIRST teenage Mayor of Mercer, Pennsylvania
Potter - Thomas .. U.K ..... FIRST ever Mayor of Manchester, England
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Rank - Joseph .. U.K ..... born 24th April 1918 .. Chairman of Rank Hovis McDougall and the FIRST High Sheriff of East Sussex when the county was created in 1874. His brother was J. Arthur Rank of the Rank Organisation film industry
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Walters - Roy ..... U.K ..... FIRST black Lord Mayor of Manchester, in 2002
Wells - Nathaniel .. U.K ..... born in St Kitts in the West Indies, he became Britains FIRST black sheriff in 1818 in Monmouthshire
Wolfe Mike ..... U.K ..... in October 2002 he became the FIRST person to be elected Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, England
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Young - Alexander Coleman .. U.S.A ..... born 24th May 1918 died 1997 .. FIRST black Mayor of Detroit (1973), an office he held for 20 years through three more elections