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Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. (August 1, 1903 – August 23, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 41st mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Maryland's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until 1947.
In the years before he became mayor, following in his father’s footsteps to City Hall, Thomas “Young Tommy” D’Alesandro III chose a high road that few other white political leaders were...
From his rough & tumble boyhood surroundings in Baltimore's Little Italy, hard by the waterfront, Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. fought his way toward the political big time. He...
A young Nancy rides in the back seat of a car with her father, Mayor Thomas J. D'Alesandro Jr., in 1948.
Thomas J. D’Alesandro III, the scion of a Maryland political dynasty who led Baltimore as mayor during the 1968 riots after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., left politics...
A year ago Baltimore's Mayor Thomas Ludwig John D'Alesandro Jr. was reeling from the blows of personal and political misfortune (TIME, April 26). His second son, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Group portrait of the D'Alesandro family, including Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr, Annunciata "Nancy" Lombardi, and their six children Thomas, Nicholas, Franklin, Hector, Joseph, and Nancy. D'Alesandro, Jr was a United States Representative and subsequently the Mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, from 1947 to 1959.