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Bessemer is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States and a southwestern suburb of Birmingham. The population was 26,019 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is within the Birmingham– Hoover , AL Metropolitan Statistical Area , of which Jefferson County is the center.
The office of mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, United States, was established with the incorporation of the city in 1871. Robert Henley was appointed by Governor Robert B. Lindsay to a two-year term. Until 1910, the Mayor presided over an ever-expanding Board of Aldermen who generally campaigned on the same ticket.
Jess Lanier, then mayor of Bessemer, established this station in 1950 through his Bessemer Broadcasting Company. [5] The original WBCO call sign stood for "Bessemer Cutoff", named for a quirk in Jefferson County government granting the city special status. Lanier sold the Bessemer Broadcasting Company and WBCO to John M. McClendon in July 1958.
The National Labor Relations Board has determined that Amazon violated labor law after workers at its Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse tried to join a union,
George G. Siebels, Jr., first Republican to serve as mayor of Birmingham (1967-1975) Luther Strange , Attorney General of Alabama 2011-2017 and former Senator of Alabama, born in Birmingham Margaret Tutwiler , diplomat
The state of Alabama sales tax was 4% at the time and Jefferson County's was 2% in total. Some municipal sales taxes reach 4%. [citation needed] On March 16, 2011, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Jefferson County's 2009 occupational tax law was passed unconstitutionally.
1964 to 1992. Longest-serving mayor of a city of more than 100,000 people. [55] 28 years George H. Lysle McKeesport, Pennsylvania: Served from 1914 to 1942. [56] 27 years, 364 days Stephen R. Reed: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Served from 1982 to 2010. 27 years, 0 days Don Robart Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio: Served from 1986 to 2013. 26 years, 30 days ...
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