Government
In 1978 Trina Olinde Scott became New Roads' first female mayor. She was followed by Sylvester Muckelroy, the first African-American mayor. The current mayor is Robert Myer.
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)
“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)