Mayor Bill Purcell

William Paxon Purcell III (born October 25, 1953) is the fifth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, elected first in 1999 and reelected to a second term in 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Image File history File links Mayor_Bill_Purcell. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... In the United States the term metropolitan government is most frequently used to describe a system of municipal government in which most or all of the functions of a government of a county are combined with those of its principal city. ... The Nashville skyline Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee. ... Davidson County is a county located in the state of Tennessee. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Democratic Party is one of the two major United States political parties. ...

Purcell was born in 1953 in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where he served as Vice President of the Student Senate and was a columnist for the school newspaper. After graduating from Hamilton, Purcell attended law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He received his law degree in 1979 and began practicing at the West Tennessee Legal Services agency in Jackson, Tennessee. Wallingford is an unincorporated community in Nether Providence Township, Delaware County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. ... Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. ... Clinton is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York: Clinton, Clinton County, New York Clinton, Dutchess County, New York Clinton, Oneida County, New York Clinton also is a name used to refer to the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. ... Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (colloquially known as Vandy) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Jackson is a city located in Madison County, Tennessee. ...

In 1986, Purcell was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives where he served for five terms. As House Majority Leader and Chair of the Select Committee on Children and Youth, Purcell's work in the legislature positioned him in the forefront of education, health care, workers compensation, and criminal sentencing reforms. Purcell retired from the General Assembly in 1996 to became director of the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt Institute of Public Policy Studies, a nationally-recognized center building a bridge between academic research, politics, and best practices to benefit children and their families. The Tennessee House of Representatives, in American politics, is the lower house of the state legislature of Tennessee, formally called the Tennessee General Assembly. ... The Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives acts as the leader of the party that has a majority control of the seats in the house (at least 218 of the 435 seats). ...

Although many suspected that he would run for governor in 1998, Purcell instead announced that he would enter the race for Mayor of Metro Nashville. Purcell won the election against former Mayor Richard Fulton and then Vice Mayor Jay West. In September 1999, Purcell took office as the fifth mayor of Metropolitan Nashville. Purcell was reelected to a second term in 2003 with a record-setting 84.8 percent of the vote. Richard Harmon Dick Fulton (born January 27, 1927) is a Tennessee political figure. ...

Purcell, his wife Debbie Miller and their daughter Jesse — a student at Hume-Fogg High School — live in the historic Lockeland Springs neighborhood of East Nashville. Hume-Fogg Academic High School is a public high school located in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. ...

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