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Louis C. Miriani (January 1, 1897 – October 18, 1987) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Detroit, Michigan, from 1957 to 1962. To date, he remains the most recent Republican to serve as Detroit's mayor.
Louis C. Miriani (1º gennaio 1897 – Pontiac, 18 ottobre 1987) è stato un politico statunitense, sindaco di Detroit dal 1957 al 1962. Biografia. Miriani si laureò alla facoltà di legge dell'Università di Detroit. Fu eletto nel consiglio comunale di Detroit nel 1947, e fu presidente del consiglio dal 1949 al 1957.
5. Louis Miriani. Mayor from Sept. 12, 1957-Jan. 2, 1962. Count Miriani among the Detroit mayors who went to jail — but at least this one didn't get tossed in the slammer for corruption.
21 ott 1987 · Louis C. Miriani, who expanded urban renewal and construction programs as Mayor of Detroit from 1957 to 1961, died Sunday at a hospital in Pontiac after a long illness. He was 90 years old.
- Andre Spivey
- Gabe Leland
- Kay Everett
- Lonnie Bates
- Monica Conyers
- Charles Pugh
- Kwame Kilpatrick
- William Hart
- Louis Miriani
- Richard Reading
Earlier this summer, Detroit City Councilman Andre Spivey and an unnamed worker on his staff were accused by federal prosecutors of accepting more than $35,000 in bribery payments from 2016 to 2020 to influence city business. Spivey entered a plea of not guilty. Federal prosecutors charged Spivey with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. Spiv...
This summer, former Detroit Councilman Gabe Leland was sentenced to 2½ years probationfor state misconduct in office. He pleaded guilty in May to felony misconduct in office and resigned from Detroit City Council. He accepted $7,500 in campaign contributions. He had been accused of seeking $15,000 from Detroit businessman Bob Carmack in exchange fo...
Charles Pugh, Monica Conyers, Lonnie Bates, and Kay Everett are the Corrupt Quartet— a fallen foursome of Detroit City Council members charged with multiple felonies since 2004. Two of them — Everett and Bates — served on the council at the same time. Everett was indicted on bribery charges in 2004. She was known to some as "the Mad Hatter" because...
Lonnie Bates was elected just as Everett's council career was winding down. In 2006, he was convicted of multiple charges of public corruption and tax charges after the feds charged him with using city money to pay his mistress and her daughter for work they did not do. He was also accused of using city money to pay a handyman who worked on his hou...
Monica Conyers pleaded guilty in 2009 to using her position on the city council and a city pension fund board to demand money from businessmen seeking city contracts or pension deals. Her indictment said she told her partner in crime: "You'd better get my loot, that's all I know." Federal wiretaps caught plenty of other colorful language, including...
Pugh, a former television reporter, anchor, and radio personality, was dogged by questions about his campaign finances and conduct long before he was essentially fired in 2013 by the emergency manager hired to run Detroit while in bankruptcy. Pugh had stopped coming to work and requested a medical leave when Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr told him to ...
Kwame Kilpatrick, who was mayor from Jan. 4, 2002, to Sept. 18, 2008, was initially seen as a young, charming, energetic state representative. His campaign slogan was: "Our Future: Right Here, Right Now." His inaugural address urged metro Detroiters to "rise up" and resurrect Detroit. But from the start of his administration, there were scandals, f...
William Hart, Detroit’s first Black police chief, went to prison for embezzling $2.3 million from a secret police anti-drug fund. Hart, who moved to Detroit from Pennsylvania in the late 1940s in search of a better life, was hired by Mayor Coleman Young, the city's first Black mayor, as chief in 1976. Detroit's police chief for nearly 15 years, tri...
Louis Miriani was among the Detroit mayors who went to jail — but not for corruption. Mayor from 1957 to 1962, Miriani was a lawyer before jumping into politics and offered his services for free to poor people. He helped struggling Detroiters during the Great Depression, and Mayor Frank Murphy named Miriani to a blue-ribbon panel on unemployment. H...
Richard Reading, who was also known as Little Dick, had a short run as mayor, from Jan. 4, 1938, to Jan. 1, 1940. He was, in fact, short at 5-foot-3-and-a-quarter, but considered a giant con man. He worked as a newsboy, then sold advertising at a newspaper, and ran a real estate enterprise. Mayor James Couzens appointed Reading city assessor in Dec...
30 gen 2024 · On Jan. 30, 1959, Detroit government officials broke ground on a federal interstate, I-375, that was the last leg in an urban renewal effort that eliminated a portion of an historic Motor City Black community. Detroit Mayor Louis Miriani led the press event held at the corner of Hastings Street and Monroe Street.
Louis C. Miriani was an American politician who served as the mayor of Detroit, Michigan, from 1957 to 1962. To date, he remains the most recent Republican to serve as Detroit's mayor.
