Jane Byrne
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Jane Margaret Byrne (née Burke, 1933–2014), an American politician who was the first woman to be elected mayor of a major city in the United States, was born on May 24, 1933.
She served as Chicago's 50th Mayor from 1979 to 1983.
Byrne won the Chicago mayoral election on April 3, 1979, becoming the first female mayor of the city, the second largest city in the United States at the time.
Byrne served as Chicago's commissioner of consumer affairs from 1969 to 1977, the only female to serve in Mayor Richard J. Daley's cabinet prior to her tenure as mayor.
Personal life
She married William P. Byrne, a Marine, in 1956. Katherine C. Byrne (born 1957) was the couple's daughter. Lt. Byrne, a Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, 1959, tried to land in a thick fog while flying from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point to Naval Air Station Glenview in a Skyraider. His plane's wing crashed into the porch of a nearby house, killing him on sunset Memorial Park after being waved off for landing twice. Byrne married journalist Jay McMullen in 1978, and the two married until he died of lung cancer in 1992. Byrne lived in the same apartment building from the 1970s to her death in 2014. Willie, she has one grandchild. Kathy's daughter, Kathy, is a Chicago lawyer. My Chicago (1992), by Mayor Byrne, chronicles her political life. Rahm Emanuel, the city's new mayor, was formally inauguration in 2011.
Early life and career
Jane Margaret Burke was born on May 24, 1933, at John B. Murphy Hospital in the Lake View neighborhood on Chicago, Illinois, to Katherine Marie Burke (née Nolan), a housewife, and Inland Steel vice president William Patrick Burke. Byrne, who grew up in the city's north side, graduated from Saint Scholastica High School and spent her first year of college at St. Mary of the Woods. Byrne later enrolled in Barat College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry and biology in 1955. In 1960, Byrne transitioned from politics to participating in John F. Kennedy's campaign for president. She first met then Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley in the midst of his campaign. Since meeting Daley, she was nominated and served in various positions, beginning in 1964 with a job in a city anti-poverty scheme.
Byrne was first elected head of Chicago's consumer affairs department in 1968. In 1972, she served as a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention (DNC) and chairperson of the DNC resolutions committee. Byrne was appointed co-chairperson of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee by Daley in 1975, over the opposition of a majority of Democratic leaders. Byrne was dismissed shortly after Daley's death in late 1976. Soon after, Byrne accused newly minted mayor Michael Bilandic of being unjustified to residents of the city by authorizing an increase in regulated taxi fares, which Byrne said was the result of a "backroom pact." Byrne was then dismissed from her post as the head of consumer affairs by Bilandic.
Later career
In the 1987 Democratic primary election, Byrne ran against Washington again, but was barely defeated. She endorsed Washington for the general election, defeating two Democrats running under other parties' banners (Edward Vrdolyak and Thomas Hynes) and a Republican.
Byrne, a candidate in 1987, requested a feasibility study of the possibility of constructing a third major airport for the city on the site of the South Works. Governor James R. Thompson endorsed the prospect of opening a new major airport in Chicago immediately. This will be one of decades-long discussions and findings for a third major airport in the city, including the proposed Chicago south suburban airport.
Byrne then ran in the 1988 Democratic primary for Cook County Circuit Court Clerk. Aurelia Pucinski, the daughter of then-Alderman Roman Pucinski, was one of the Democratic Party's endorsed candidates (who was endorsed by Mayor Washington and is the niece of then-Alderman Roman Pucinski). Pucinski defeated Byrne in the primary and Vrdolyak, then a Republican, in the general election. Byrne's fourth attempt for mayor was a rematch with Daley in the 1991 primary. She got just 59% of the vote, a distant third behind Daley and Alderman Danny K. Davis.