Encyclopedia of Massachusetts Biographical Genealogical volume 4
Encyclopedia of Massachusetts Biographical Genealogical volume 4
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R. Grafot Hotel Company, of Boston. KAY, James H. , Efficient Public Official. With his calling to the Mayoralty in 1913, Mayor Kay dispelled several illu- sions that were rapidly becoming realities in Fall River politics. With many it had become a truism that none but a profes- sional man could win the mayor's chair, and this belief was strengthened by the fact that for thirty-three years, 1880- 1913. Every mayor of the city with one exception had been either a physician or lawyer. Another myt...h which vanished with his election was that no alderman could become mayor. But in spite of the two supposed handicaps, Mr. Kay was elected by the record majority of 1820 votes. Each recurring election has re- turned him to the office of chief executive of the city of his birth, and no finer endorsement of a man's fitness for office can be conceived than this continued sup- port from men who have known him from boyhood, to whom he is not known as Mayor Kay but "Jim Kay. " But the per- sonal equation does not account for the great strength shown by Mr.
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