Tom P. Hanafan is the former mayor of Council Bluffs, Iowa and is a past president of the Iowa League of Cities.[3][4]
Education
Hanafan graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School. While in high school, he played football and baseball and worked a number of different jobs including delivering newspapers, cleaning windows and cleaning an ice cream truck. After graduating high school, he received a scholarship to football at the University of South Dakota. During the summer, he would go back home to work for his dad at the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha.[5]
Family
Hanafan is the son of Robert and Evelyn Hanafan. He has two sisters, Nancy and Barbara, and a younger brother, Mike. In 1969, he married his wife Shirley.[5]
Legacy
Hanafan is memorialised in the Tom Hanafan River’s Edge Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, along the Missouri River at the foot of the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, directly across from downtown Omaha, NA.[6]
References
- ^ "Two Mayors Begin Their Second Terms With Visions of Jobs and Integrity; A First in 40 Years". The New York Times. Associated Press. January 5, 1988. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
- ^ Nelson, Andrew J. (2 January 2014). "Newly sworn-in Council Bluffs Mayor Matt Walsh 'excited to get down and get to work'". Omaha World-Herald. Retrieved 3 July 2022.
- ^ City of Council Bluffs, Iowa: http://www.councilbluffs-ia.gov/
- ^ Iowa League of Cities Executive Board: http://www.iowaleague.org/AboutCities/AboutTheLeague.aspx?id=1
- ^ a b Brownlee, Mike. "Was there a time when Tom Hanafan wasn't mayor? Yes, there was". The Daily Nonpareil. Retrieved 6 December 2013.
- ^ Tom Hanafan River's Edge Park, Council Bluffs IA, accessed 2023-11-14