1. Jerome Patrick Cavanagh was an American politician who served as the mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1962 to 1970.
16 Facts About Jerome Cavanagh
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Jerome P Cavanagh was born on June 16,1928, in Detroit, the son of Mary Irene and Sylvester J Cavanaugh, a boilermaker at Ford Motor Company.
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Jerome Cavanagh attended the University of Detroit, earning an undergraduate degree in 1950 and a law degree in 1954, and practiced law in Detroit after graduation.
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Jerome Cavanagh was active in Democratic Party politics while attending school, and afterward served in low-level appointed positions as an administrative assistant at the Michigan State Fair Authority and as a member of the Metropolitan Airport Board of Zoning Appeals.
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Jerome Cavanagh is the brother of Mike Cavanagh, a former Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and father of eight children, among whom are Mark Jerome Cavanagh, since 1989 a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals, David Peter Cavanagh and Christopher Francis Cavanagh, and Phil Cavanagh.
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Jerome Cavanagh ran second to Miriani in the primary, earning a slot in the general election, but received fewer than half the primary votes Miriani did.
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However, Jerome Cavanagh campaigned relentlessly, criticizing Miriani's handling of Detroit's financial affairs and race relations with the city's African-American community.
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On election day, black voters turned out in force, and Jerome Cavanagh stunned political observers by defeating the incumbent Miriani.
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Unlike Richard J Daley, who resisted forced implementation of the American civil rights movement, Jerry Cavanagh welcomed Martin Luther King Jr.
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Jerome Cavanagh was successful in receiving money from the US federal government through the Model Cities Program.
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In 1966, Jerome Cavanagh was elected president of both the United States Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities, the only mayor to hold both posts at the same time.
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Jerome Cavanagh had inherited a $28 million budget gap in 1962.
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Jerome Cavanagh was, moreover, procedurally limited in his ability to control the riots as it was the role of Governor George Romney to ask for federal assistance once it appeared local resources might not be sufficient.
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In October, Jerome Cavanagh counter-sued, and in 1968 the couple went through a contentious and public divorce.
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In 1974, Jerome Cavanagh again ran for office, this time for Governor, but lost in the primary election to Democrat Sander Levin, who later lost in the general election to Republican William Milliken.
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Jerome Cavanagh died of a heart attack on November 27,1979, at St Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky, while visiting a client in that city.