board of aldermen
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On Tuesday, the Moss Point mayor and board of aldermen presented Evans with a certificate of commendation for his actions.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
The workhouse has been a fraught subject in St. Louis, and the city’s board of aldermen approved a plan last summer to close it by the end of 2020.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2021
Mr. Sanders never won full control of the Burlington government: The board of aldermen — a part-time municipal legislature with 13 members, elected to staggered two-year terms — would regularly restrain his ambitions.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019
He endorsed a gay candidate for Chicago’s board of aldermen in 1951.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 8, 2019
He appointed a new board of aldermen, some of whom were men of color, and in the next month this council appointed four assistant recorders, three of whom were colored, and two colored city physicians.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
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