| 词条 | Thomas Gallagher (mayor) |
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| name = Thomas Gallagher | image = | caption = | order = 52nd Mayor of Pittsburgh | term_start = January 15, 1959 | term_end = December 2, 1959[1] | predecessor = David Lawrence | successor = Joe Barr | birth_date = {{birth date|1883|11|20|mf=y}} | birth_place = Pittsburgh | death_date = {{death date and age|1967|3|14|1883|11|20|mf=y}} | death_place = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | constituency = Brookline neighborhood | party = Democratic | spouse = | profession = Glassblower; Labor Unions; City Council | religion = Roman Catholic | signature = | footnotes = }} Thomas Gallagher (November 20, 1883 – March 14, 1967)[1] served as Mayor of Pittsburgh during the transition year of 1959. Early lifeGallagher was born in Pittsburgh and started his career as a glassblower in the industrial plants of the region. He ran successfully as a Union representative during his blue collar days. Pittsburgh politicsHe started his public political career in the Commonwealth Assembly representing Pittsburgh neighborhoods in Harrisburg. In 1933 he came back to the city and was elected City Councilmember. He served in that city legislative post for over twenty years climbing to the leadership position of Council President, one step below Mayor. When David L. Lawrence resigned his post as the city's top executive to assume the governorship of Pennsylvania, Gallagher succeeded him as Mayor. He completed and provided the final push on several of the great Lawrence projects, presiding over the opening of the Fort Pitt Tunnel among other things. He also dealt with a lengthy and contentious Steelworkers strike that struck at the heart of the blue collar city. In September 1959 Mayor Gallagher did what only a handful of American mayors have ever done. He welcomed Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the Pittsburgh International Airport while the Premier was on his goodwill tour of the United States. Legend has it that the mayor had to explain that the onion domes along the Monongahela River valley that Khrushchev saw were not a Potemkin Village built to impress him but the hard labor and heritage of slavs and Russian immigrants. {{see also|List of Mayors of Pittsburgh}}Later lifeAfter stepping down as Mayor he was again elected to a term on City Council, the body that he made his biggest political impact during his life. He died on March 14, 1967 and is buried in Pittsburgh's Roman Catholic Calvary Cemetery. {{Portal|Pittsburgh|Biography|Politics}}HonorsAn overlook on scenic Mt. Washington on Pittsburgh's southside is named for Mayor Gallagher. References1. ^1 {{cite news|last=Swetnam|first=George|title=Mayors' Notebook|newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press|date=2 November 1973|page=49|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sfIjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hFQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7018%2C498077 }} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{succession box | before=David L. Lawrence | title=Mayor of Pittsburgh |years=1959 | after=Joseph M. Barr}} {{s-end}}{{Mayors of Pittsburgh}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gallagher, Thomas}} 8 : 1883 births|1967 deaths|Burials at Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Pittsburgh)|American people of Irish descent|Mayors of Pittsburgh|Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives|Pennsylvania city council members|20th-century American politicians |
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