Thomas Andrew McEnery was born on September 23,1945 and is an American author, businessman, and teacher from San Jose, California, who served as the 61st mayor of that city from 1983 to 1991.
20 Facts About Tom McEnery
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Tom McEnery co-founded San Jose Inside, a website devoted to the culture and politics of San Jose.
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Tom McEnery is an owner of the Irish Innovation Center and Silicon Valley Global in Downtown San Jose which houses and funds start-up technology ventures.
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Tom McEnery was born in San Jose, California on September 23,1945.
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Tom McEnery's father, John P "Big John" McEnery, was a member of the Truman administration and Chairman of the California Democratic Party, and an early supporter, confidant, and floor leader for John F Kennedy at the 1956 and 1960 Democratic Conventions.
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Tom McEnery's mother, Margaret was a key political influence in the life of each of the three political leaders in her life: father, husband and son.
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Tom McEnery was a Presidential Fellow at Santa Clara University and lectured for two years at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
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Tom McEnery is a prime mover in the Irish Technology Leadership Group chaired by former Intel CEO, Craig Barrett.
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Tom McEnery was elected Mayor of San Jose in a landslide victory in the primary of 1982.
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Tom McEnery presided over an explosion of growth and optimism in San Jose and was rated "the most powerful person in Silicon Valley" by the San Jose Mercury News.
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Tom McEnery was reelected mayor in another landslide in 1986.
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From 1995 to 1998, Tom McEnery hosted the frequently number-one rated radio show in the valley.
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Tom McEnery served on the first board of the Silicon Valley Sports and Entertainment until he sold his interest to partner and SAP founder Hasso Plattner.
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Tom McEnery was a delegate to the 1980,1984 and 2000 Democratic Conventions pledged to candidates Ted Kennedy and Bill Bradley.
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Tom McEnery wrote California Cavalier, a fictional journal written from the perspective of Thomas Fallon.
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Tom McEnery co-edited and wrote the introduction to A New Ireland, the story of his friend John Hume's struggle for Irish peace and reconciliation.
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The Irish in the Bay Area, an anthology with an essay by Tom McEnery, was published in 2006.
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Tom McEnery is currently working on a new book on immigrants and the American dream.
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Tom McEnery was a founder and trustee of Bytes for Belfast, a program linking Silicon Valley expertise with Northern Ireland community efforts, using new technologies to expand the social and economic opportunities open to the youth in inner-city Belfast and Derry.
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Tom McEnery was selected as one of the "Top 100" Irish Americans by the magazine Irish America, in 2011 was named to the "Silicon Valley 50".