J. Barry Mahool, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJ. Barry Mahool
American politician
Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1870
Date of Death: 29-Jul-1935
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About J. Barry Mahool
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- Barry Mahool (September 14, 1870 – July 29, 1935) was the Mayor of Baltimore from 1907 to 1911. Mahool was born in Baltimore County on September 24, 1870.
- He became the Democratic nominee for Baltimore mayor in April 1907, defeating opponents John Charles Linthicum and George Stewart Brown.
- In May 1907, he defeated incumbent Republican mayor E.
- Clay Timanus.In 1910, Mahool signed city ordinance No.
- 610 prohibiting African-Americans from moving onto blocks where whites were the majority, and vice versa.
- Mahool had been an advocate for social justice, championing causes such as woman's suffrage, but the ordinance came in response to an uproar after George W.F.
- McMechen, an African-American Yale law school graduate, moved into a rich (white) neighborhood.
- The ordinance was rapidly declared unconstitutional.Mahool lost a re-election bid in 1911 in the primary, losing to James H.
- Preston.Mahool died in Baltimore on July 29, 1935, nine days after suffering a fall in Ocean City, Maryland.
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