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Edmund Orgill, a highly respected businessman (Orgill Bros & Co.), banded together with other concerned citizens to defeat Crump's candidates and restore democracy in Memphis. In 1956 he became the first mayor of Memphis elected without Crump's backing in almost five decades.
27 kwi 2024 · See photos of the current Memphis mayor and previous mayors captured by The Commercial Appeal through the years.
1 mar 2023 · Let’s take a look at some of the incredible women, both past and present, who have changed this city. Though this activist was from Holly Springs, MS, Ida B. Wells spent a decade in Memphis and helped shape the landscape of the civil rights movement.
This is a list of mayors of Memphis, Tennessee. As a result of a yellow fever epidemic in 1879, Memphis lost so much of its population that it was disincorporated and was not rechartered until 1895. This accounts for the absence of a mayor during the period 1879–1893.
10 sty 2019 · Undated photo of the indoor swimming pool at the Nineteenth Century Club, which was founded in 1890 and is the oldest women's club in Memphis.
Jan Czarnecki – (XIX w.) Wójt gminy Simoradz w latach 1876-1883. ↑ Dz. Pers. MSWojsk. ↓, Nr 11 z 24 lipca 1928, s. 244. Dziennik Personalny Ministerstwa Spraw Wojskowych. [dostęp 2022-01-19].
All of the mayors of Memphis are covered on this page - from the first Mayor Marcus Winchester to the current mayor Jim Strickland.
