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] He became the Democratic nominee for Baltimore mayor in April 1907, defeating opponents 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] Mahool had been an advocate for social justice, championing causes such as woman's suffrage, but the ordinance came in response to an uproar after 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. Baltimore: Maryland Biographical Association. pp. 107, 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. July 30, 1930. p. 22. Retrieved December 25, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
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