Detroit Hazen Pingree as Social Reform Mayor The earliest, the path-breaker, and, in some ways the most successful was Detroit’s Hazen Pingree. Pingree, a wealthy
Category: Social Reform Mayors in Progressive Era
Cincinnatti in the Progressive Age: Machine, Structural Reformer and Social Reform Mayors
Cincinnati: Machine Boss, Structural Reformers and Social Reform Mayor Cincinnati in the Progressive Era offers a case study which includes three of our alternative policy
Cleveland’s Tom Johnson–Social Reform Mayor
In Cleveland, Thomas Johnson, a wealthy businessman who acquired his wealth through an innovative streetcar technology/ownership[1], ruled for four terms (1901-1909)[2]. He was followed by
Rise of Social Reform Mayors:
Big City Progressive Era Policy Systems The ultimate purpose of this chapter is to describe municipal policy systems that typified the Progressive Era. Despite the
An Early Version of Progressivism 1865-1935: Book 2
A Second Ship Sails Upstream: Progressivism 1865-1933 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BIG CITIES: Big City Progressivism The stream to which we attach the
Social Reform Mayors: Pingree, Other Examples, and La Guardia,
Social Reformers: a real alternative to the Privatist approach After the late 1880’s through the first decade of the twentieth century, several large cities elected
Ron W. Coan 