I am horribly embarassed at the error I made in distributing my pre-election trivia
item. The item was correct on my Mpls. mayors page but I mistranscribed. You can
read it here; Julie's g-grandfather's name appears several times in the
superlatives:
http://www.nyx.net/~thill/mplshist.html
Tony Hill
Logan Park USA
Julie Mattson Ostrow wrote:
> Kunze was originally elected in 1929. At the time, the mayoral
> term was for 2 years. He lost his re-election bid in 1931.
> Tony Hill wrote:
> >
> > Only four incumbent Minneapolis mayors have lost primaries for
> > re-election, most recently George Leach in 1941.
> >
> > The others were William F. Kunze in 1929, A.G. "Buzz" Bainbridge in
> > 1935, when he had to fight a 19-way primary, and Thomas Latimer in 1937.
_______________________________________
Minneapolis Issues Forum - Mn E-Democracy
Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more:
http://e-democracy.org/mpls
