Kurt Lidell Schmoke was born on December 1,1949 and is an American politician and lawyer who was the 47th mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1987 to 1999, the first African American to be elected to the post.
29 Facts About Kurt Schmoke
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Kurt Schmoke is a former dean of the Howard University School of Law and, on July 7,2014, he was appointed as president of the University of Baltimore.
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Kurt Schmoke excelled in both football and lacrosse and he was a star quarterback.
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Kurt Schmoke was elected president of the school's student government in his senior year but worked in the Baltimore community with disadvantaged youth.
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Kurt Schmoke played quarterback on the freshman team that year.
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Kurt Schmoke played in one of college football's most famous games in 1968.
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Kurt Schmoke has been acknowledged as the undergraduate student leader who helped quell the possibility of riot on the Yale campus in the wake of the New Haven Black Panther trials in the spring of 1970.
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Kurt Schmoke, who was Secretary of the Class of 1971 and a leader of the Black Student Alliance at Yale, was selected to represent the students.
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Kurt Schmoke was selected with five other distinguished former collegiate student-athletes for a Silver Anniversary Award by the NCAA in 1996.
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Kurt Schmoke challenged incumbent Baltimore City State's Attorney William A Swisher in a citywide contest.
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Kurt Schmoke ran an energetic, grassroots and race-neutral campaign and upset Swisher in a landslide.
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Kurt Schmoke rewrote his speech the night before the conference, adding a harsh criticism of drug criminalization without showing his staff or the organizers of the conference.
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Kurt Schmoke initiated programs in housing, education, public health and economic development.
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Kurt Schmoke's achievements included improving the environment of low-income housing projects, a needle-exchange program for addicts, keeping the tax rate stable, and attracting the Ravens football team to Baltimore.
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In 1997, Kurt Schmoke was a committee member for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence.
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In 1999, Kurt Schmoke delivered some remarks on the subject of school choice and school vouchers at a Manhattan Institute luncheon in New York.
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An edited version of a transcript of that speech entitled, "Why School Vouchers Can Help Inner-City Children", is available online and in that brief web page, Kurt Schmoke explains why he believes [that] school choice and vouchers will improve the quality of public education for America's youth, particularly inner-city minority children.
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Kurt Schmoke first spoke in support of school choice in a speech at Johns Hopkins University in March 1996.
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In 2003, Kurt Schmoke was appointed the dean of the Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC In 2004, Kurt Schmoke was appointed an honorary fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
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Kurt Schmoke is on the board of Global Rights, and a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.
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Kurt Schmoke appeared in two 2004 episodes of the acclaimed HBO series The Wire.
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In July 2008, Kurt Schmoke became the acting senior vice president for academic affairs at Howard University.
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Kurt Schmoke continued as dean of the Howard University School of Law.
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Kurt Schmoke taught election law as a seminar class every fall semester to third-year law students.
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In January 2009, Kurt Schmoke was seen holding an umbrella for Illinois Senate designee Roland Burris during an outdoor press conference concerning Burris' seating controversy.
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Kurt Schmoke was part of the legal team advising Burris during the controversy.
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Kurt Schmoke was appointed vice president and general counsel of Howard University in July 2012.
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On May 14,2014, the University of Baltimore announced that Kurt Schmoke would become its new president.
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On September 8,2017, President Kurt Schmoke made the decision to have Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as the Fall 2017 commencement speaker.