Sophie Masloff

✶December 23, 1917

†August 17, 2014

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Sophie Masloff was an American politician. A long-time member of the Democratic Party and civil servant, she was elected to the Pittsburgh City Council and later served as the mayor of Pittsburgh from 1988 to 1994. She was the first and to date only woman and the first Jew to hold that office.

American mayor (1917–2014)

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Biography from the article Sophie Masloff on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.