Portland, Oregon Mayor Ted Wheeler says he will not seek
re-election in 2024.
Wheeler was elected in the 2016 Portland mayoral election
and reelected in 2020. Formerly a registered Republican;
he has been described as a moderate Democrat.
A sixth-generation Oregonian, Wheeler was born in Portland
to a family with roots and wealth in the Oregon timber industry.
On August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is
also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented
consolidation of power in the short history of the republic.
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011)
Walter Mondale, the leading Democratic presidential
candidate, announced that he has chosen Representative
Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate in 1984.
Ferraro, a daughter of Italian immigrants, had previously
gained recognition as a vocal advocate of women’s rights
in Congress. Ferraro became the first female vice presidential
candidate to represent a major political party.
Then-Democratic presidential candidate, ex-VP Walter
Mondale introduces his running mate, Rep. Geraldine
Ferraro, before the Democratic convention.
On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elected its
first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth,
Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.
MIKE GREACIA
On January 7, 1999, the impeachment trial of President Bill
Clinton, formally charged with lying under oath and
obstructing justice, began in the Senate. As instructed
in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court Chief
Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in to preside (below),
and the senators were sworn in as jurors. Congress had only
attempted to remove a president on one other occasion:
the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson,
who incurred the Republican Party’s wrath after he proposed
a conservative Reconstruction plan.
