American politician (1870–1935)
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.[ 1] John Charles Linthicum and George Stewart Brown. In May 1907 , he defeated incumbent Republican mayor E. Clay Timanus .[ 2]
In 1910, Mahool signed city ordinance No. 610 prohibiting African-Americans from moving onto blocks where whites were the majority, and vice versa.[ 3] George W. F. McMechen , an African-American Yale law school graduate, moved into a rich (white) neighborhood. The ordinance was rapidly declared unconstitutional.[ 4]
Mahool lost a re-election bid in 1911 in the primary, losing to James H. Preston .[ 5] [ 6]
Mahool died in Baltimore on July 29, 1935, nine days after suffering a fall in Ocean City, Maryland .[ 7]
References
^ Agnus, Felix , ed. (1920). The book of Maryland: Men and Institutions 153 . Retrieved December 25, 2021 – via Internet Archive.^ (May 8, 1907). Baltimore Goes Democratic , The New York Times
^ Baltimore (Md.). The Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore . p. 204. ^ 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)
^ J. Barry Mahool (1870-1935) , Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series), Retrieved May 8, 2012^ Coyle, Wilbur F. The Mayors of Baltimore, Baltimore Municipal Journal (1919)
^ "Barry Mahool Dies Suddenly At Hospital" . The Baltimore Sun . Retrieved December 25, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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