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Henry Loeb III (December 9, 1920 – September 8, 1992) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who was mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, for two separate terms in the 1960s, from 1960 through 1963, and 1968 through 1971. [1]
Mayor Henry Loeb refused to recognize the strike and rejected the City Council vote, insisting that only he possessed the power to recognize the union. [1] [4] [5] The Memphis sanitation strike prompted Martin Luther King Jr.'s presence, where he famously gave the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech a day before his assassination.
Henry Loeb: 1960–1963 Claude Armour: 1963 William B. Ingram: 1963–1967 Henry Loeb (2nd term) 1968–1971 J. Wyeth Chandler: 1972–1982 Resigned from office to accept a circuit court judgeship J.O. Patterson, Jr. 1982 Served as interim mayor. First African-American mayor. Former State Representative (one term) and former State Senator (two ...
One day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb - a shotgun beneath his desk - greeted about 300 black and white ministers in his office Friday, April 5 ...
Mayor Henry Loeb, however, refused to recognize their union or give in to their demands, even as thousands of pounds of trash piled up throughout Memphis.
He was the adopted son of former Memphis mayor and U.S. Representative Walter Chandler. Chandler succeeded the controversial Henry Loeb, who battled local sanitation workers during a strike that brought Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis in April 1968.
On the same day, at the request of Mayor Henry Loeb of Memphis, U.S. District Judge Bailey Brown issued a temporary restraining order to prohibit King's plan to lead a march of 6,000 men through Memphis on April 8. King announced that he would ignore the order, telling the press "We are not going to be stopped by Mace or injunctions or any ...
Republican Mayor Owen Henry is not running for reelection, instead making a bid for a state Senate seat in the 12 th District. Running with DeCaro for three four-year Council seats are Krista ...