Mayor

Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater") is the highest-ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city.

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Famous quotes containing the word mayor:

    “Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.”
    —Dudley Nichols, U.S. screenwriter. Jean Renoir. Mayor (Thurston Hall)

    “If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.”
    —Frank Moore Colby (1865–1925)

    “The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth,
    Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth,
    Were all assembled. Criccieth’s mayor addressed them
    First in good Welsh and then in fluent English,”
    —Robert Graves (1895–1985)