Mayor for life
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The tongue-in-cheek epithet Mayor for Life has been popularly applied[by whom?] to several long-serving mayors of United States cities including:
- Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Illinois (elected six times, served from 1955 to his death in 1976.)
- Richard M. Daley of Chicago, Illinois (the son of the above, who was also elected six times, served from 1989 to 2011.)
- Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, California (elected five times, served from 1973 to 1993.)
- Jerry Abramson of Louisville, Kentucky
- Marion Barry of Washington, D.C. (elected three times and served from 1979 to 1991 and elected to a fourth term in 1995.)
- Buddy Cianci of Providence, Rhode Island
- Thomas Menino of Boston, Massachusetts
- Brian Wahler of Piscataway, New Jersey
- Thomas W. Hogg of Newtownabbey, Ulster, elected as the last Mayor of Newtownabbey Borough Council, from 2014 to 2015 and the first Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, from 2015 - ?
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