Tom Barrett (politician)
Thomas Mark "Tom" Barrett (born December 8, 1953) is an American politician and the 40th and current Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, serving since 2004. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has served in a number of positions, including: the Wisconsin State Assembly, the Wisconsin State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 5th congressional district.
He ran for the Governor of Wisconsin in 2010 and in the 2012 recall election, losing to Republican Scott Walker both times.
Read more about Tom Barrett (politician): Early Life, Education, and Early Career, U.S. House of Representatives, Mayor of Milwaukee, Personal Life, Electoral History
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“What is art,
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushes toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
Art’s life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)