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A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning "larger","greater") is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs as to the powers and responsibilities of a mayor, as well as the means of becoming mayor.
The French form of the word is maire. In Germany and the Low Countries the chief town magistrate is called "burgomaster" (G. Brgermeister, Du. burgemeester; French-speaking parts of Belgium use bourgmestre), in Italy sindaco, in Bohemia starosta and in Spain alcalde, a term derived from a Moorish post.
In the United States, mayors are usually elected by the citizens of a locality for a fixed term. They generally share power with a local legislative body, such as a city council. Mayors may also function as the head of the city council, sometimes elected as mayor by the council rather the citizens, while day-to-day operations of the city are delegated to a professional city manager. In Salt Lake County in the U.S. state of Utah there is a county mayor. Additionally, the chief executives of all counties in Tennessee and Hawaii are referred to as "mayors". However, these persons are elected, not appointed, to that office.
In Canada mayors are usually elected at large by the citizens of a municipality for a fixed term. In most provinces, the Mayor operates under a weak-mayor system in which the Mayor sits as a member of the municipal council. In such systems, the Mayor has one vote, in common with all other members of Council and no executive powers. In rural municipalities, the head of Council may have the title reeve as opposed to mayor.
In several other countries, mayors are often appointed by some branch of the federal or regional government. In some cities, subdivisions such as arrondissements or boroughs may have their own mayors; this is the case, for example, with Paris and Mexico City.
In London, the Lord Mayor of London is now largely ceremonial, a post that should be distinguished from the elected Mayor of London. Thirty other cities in the United Kingdom have Lord Mayors, or, in Scotland, Lord Provosts.
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History
In spite of its etymology, "mayor" was not a Roman office. It came into use in the large entourages that followed the barbarian leaders who succeeded to the power of the Emperor of the West. The male officer who governed a king or duke's peripatetic household was the major domus, the "major domo" . In the households of the Merovingian Frankish kings, the major domus, or praefectus palatii ("prefect of the palace"), gained such power that, in the person of Pippin of Herstal, he ended by evicting his master. He was the "mayor of the palace".
Mayors of the World
Albania
Argentina
Australia
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Adelaide
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Brisbane
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Hobart
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Melbourne
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Perth
- List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
- Category:Lists of Canadian mayors
- List of mayors in Canada
- List of mayors of Brantford, Ontario
- List of mayors of Calgary, Alberta
- List of mayors of Edmonton, Alberta
- List of mayors of Halifax, Nova Scotia
- List of mayors of Hamilton, Ontario
- List of mayors of London, Ontario
- List of mayors of Mississauga, Ontario
- List of mayors of Montreal, Quebec
- List of mayors of Ottawa, Ontario
- List of mayors of Regina, Saskatchewan
- List of mayors of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- List of mayors of Thunder Bay, Ontario
- List of mayors of Toronto, Ontario
- List of mayors of Vancouver, British Columbia
- List of mayors of Victoria, British Columbia
- List of mayors of Winnipeg, Manitoba
- List of mayors of Windsor, Ontario
- List of mayors of Quebec City, Quebec
Germany
Ireland
Mexico
New Zealand
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
The longest serving mayor in the U.S. was Robert Linn, who served for 58 years from 1946 to 2004 as mayor of Beaver, Pennsylvania.
- List of mayors of Washington, D.C.
- List of mayors of Akron, Ohio
- List of mayors of Baltimore, Maryland
- List of mayors of Boise, Idaho
- List of mayors of Boston, Massachusetts
- List of mayors of Chicago, Illinois
- List of Mayors of Cincinnati, Ohio
- List of mayors of Cleveland, Ohio
- List of mayors of Coon Rapids, Minnesota
- List of mayors of Dallas, Texas
- List of mayors of Dayton, Ohio
- List of mayors of Denver, Colorado
- List of mayors of Detroit, Michigan
- List of mayors of Fort Wayne, Indiana
- List of mayors of Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Mayor of Honolulu, Hawaii
- List of Mayors of Houston, Texas
- List of mayors of Las Vegas, Nevada
- List of mayors of Littleton, Colorado
- List of mayors of Los Angeles, California
- List of mayors of Memphis, Tennessee
- List of mayors of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- List of mayors of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- List of mayors of Nashville, Tennessee
- List of mayors of New York City, New York
- List of mayors of Omaha, Nebraska
- List of mayors of Oakland, California
- List of mayors of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- List of mayors of Raleigh, North Carolina
- List of mayors of Sacramento, California
- List of mayors of Salt Lake City, Utah
- List of Mayors of San Francisco, California
- List of mayors of Seattle, Washington
- List of mayors of Tampa, Florida
- List of mayors of Vancouver, Washington
See also
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