Andrew Broaddus (May 15, 1900 – September 7, 1972) was

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, from December 1953 to December 1957.

Life

He was born and died in Louisville. After serving in the

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during

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he attended

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in nearby

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, but did not graduate, leaving after two years in 1921 to work in his family's laundry business, becoming vice president of it by 1930. He was elected to the

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in 1933 as a Democrat, and mayor in 1953. His administration is remembered for the Mallon Plan, a failed attempt to annex large portions of Jefferson County, which were beginning to develop quickly as suburbs of Louisville. He also signed an order officially ending

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in Louisville's public parks and pools in 1955. After his term as mayor, he served as chairman of the Urban Renewal Advisory Committee under mayor

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, and city civil-defense director under Frank W. Burke starting in 1969. He died of a heart attack in 1972 and is buried in

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. The ''

Mayor Andrew Broaddus ''Mayor Andrew Broaddus'' is a lifesaving station built by the United States Life-Saving Service located in Louisville, Kentucky, off the corner of River Road and Fourth Street. She is named in honor of Andrew Broaddus (1900–1972), a former ...

'' a lifesaving station, is named in his honor.

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Mayor Andrew Broaddus, ex. Life-Saving Station No. 10
A former Coast Guard station named after Broaddus * 1900 births 1972 deaths Mayors of Louisville, Kentucky Burials at Cave Hill Cemetery 20th-century mayors of places in Kentucky {{Kentucky-mayor-stub