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Designated NHL. October 9, 1960 [ 3] Point State Park (locally known as The Point) is a Pennsylvania state park which is located on 36 acres (150,000 m 2) in Downtown Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, forming the Ohio River . Built on land that was acquired via eminent ...
Ed Gainey. Edward C. Gainey (born February 19, 1970) is an American politician who is the 61st mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Previously, he served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from the 24th district. [ 1] In November 2021, Gainey became the first African-American to become the mayor of Pittsburgh and assumed ...
Pittsburgh was a Republican party stronghold until 1932. The soaring unemployment of the Great Depression , the New Deal relief programs and the rise of powerful labor unions in the 1930s turned the city into a liberal stronghold of the New Deal Coalition under powerful Democratic mayors.
John Darragh. 1817–1825. Federalist. Appointed by City Council, formerly president of the bank of Pittsburgh. 3. John M. Snowden. 1825–1828. Democratic-Republican, Jacksonian. Appointed by City Council, formerly president of the bank of Pittsburgh and county treasurer, edited the Pittsburgh Mercury .
David Harold McCormick (born August 17, 1965) is an American businessman and politician. McCormick served as the CEO of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds, from 2020 to 2022. [ 2][ 3] He is the husband of former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy Dina Powell. [ 2][ 3]
Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania) Coordinates: 40.4411°N 80.0090°W. A Plan of the New Fort at Pitts-Burgh drawn by cartographer John Rocque in 1765. Fort Pitt was a fort built by British forces between 1759 and 1761 during the French and Indian War at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, where the Ohio River is formed in western ...
The Point Park Civic Center was a proposed civic center for downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, where the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers forms the Ohio River. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the structure on a commission from Edgar J. Kaufmann in the late 1940s. Wright initially envisioned a circular building more ...
Party delegate, Civil servant, Politician. David Leo Lawrence (June 18, 1889 – November 21, 1966) was an American politician who served as the 37th governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963. The first Catholic elected as Pennsylvania's governor, Lawrence is the only mayor of Pittsburgh to have also been elected as Governor of Pennsylvania.