John Barry Mahool (September 14, 1870 – July 29, 1935) was the
Mayor of Baltimore from 1907 to 1911.
Biography
Mahool was born in
Phoenix, Maryland on September 14, 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.
[(May 8, 1907)]
Baltimore Goes Democratic
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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
George W. F. McMechen (October 29, 1871 - February 22, 1961) was a prominent African-American lawyer in Baltimore, Maryland. Along with his brother-in-law William Ashbie Hawkins he was a leading advocate for African-American civil rights.
McMec ...
, an African-American Yale law school graduate, moved into a rich (white) neighborhood. The ordinance was rapidly declared unconstitutional.
[Crenson, Matthew A]
Roots: Baltimore's Long March to the Era of Civil Rights
in ''The City in American Political Development'' (Dilsworth, Richardson, ed.), pp. 212-13 (2009)
Mahool lost a re-election bid
in 1911 in the primary, losing to
James H. Preston.
[J. Barry Mahool (1870-1935)](_blank)
Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series), Retrieved May 8, 2012[Coyle, Wilbur F. The Mayors of Baltimore, ''Baltimore Municipal Journal'' (1919)]
Mahool died in Baltimore on July 29, 1935, nine days after suffering a fall in
Ocean City, Maryland
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1870 births
1935 deaths
People from Baltimore County, Maryland
Mayors of Baltimore
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