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Biography

Name: Tom Bradley
Birth Date: December 29, 1917
Death Date: September 29, 1998
Place of Birth: Texas, United States
Place of Death: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: mayor, politician

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Biography of Tom Bradley
1,246 words, approx. 4 pages
The first African American mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley (1917-1998) won election five times, serving a record 20 years in a city where African Americans constituted a small minority of the electorate. He was twice (1982, 1986) the Democratic...


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Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley (December 29, 1917 – September 29, 1998) was the mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1973 to 1993 (five terms) and only the second African American mayor of a major U.S. city. The first was Carl Stokes of Cleveland, Ohio,...


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The Independent - London
Obituary: Tom Bradley
10/01/1998: 1,267 words, approx. 4 pages
WHEN TOM Bradley became mayor of Los Angeles in 1973, he upset a widely held establishment belief that the city should be run by a strictly white Protestant elite. Not only was he black, but a black liberal who believed fervently that the ethnic...
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The Washington Post
Echoes Of Tom Bradley
01/11/2008: 788 words, approx. 3 pages
Pollsters and pundits were quick to discount race and the so- called Bradley effect as factors in Barack Obama's narrow loss to Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary. Given that the same pollsters and pundits (okay, me, too) were so wrong about the...
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AP Features
Workers say LAX needs wheelchair help
7/2/2007: 258 words, approx. 1 pages
Two workers who provide wheelchair assistance at Los Angeles International Airport filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Transportation, claiming their employer hasn't provided proper training and well-maintained wheelchairs.The complaint filed Thursday alleges Aero Port Services has failed to train some of its 350...
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States Weigh Medicare Options After Ruling
6/19/2006: 568 words, approx. 2 pages
State officials looked for other options Monday after the Supreme Court declined to block a part of the Medicare drug program that they contend sticks them with unfair payments. Five states had sought an injunction that would have let them...
 


 

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