J. Barry Mahool
{{Short description|American politician (1870–1935)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = J. Barry Mahool
| office = Mayor of Baltimore
| order = 36th
| image = John Barry Mahool (1870–1935).png
| predecessor = E. Clay Timanus
| successor = James H. Preston
| termend = 1911
| termstart = 1907
| party = Democratic
| birth_name = John Barry Mahool
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1870|09|14}}
| birth_place = Phoenix, Maryland, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1935|7|29|1870|9|14}}
| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
| resting_place =
}}
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.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bookofmarylandme00agnu/page/n110 |title=The book of Maryland: Men and Institutions |editor-first=Felix |editor-last=Agnus |editor-link=Felix Agnus |publisher=Maryland Biographical Association |location=Baltimore |pages=107, [https://archive.org/details/bookofmarylandme00agnu/page/n156 153] |year=1920 |access-date=2021-12-25 |via=Internet Archive}} 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.(May 8, 1907). [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/05/08/106751893.pdf Baltimore Goes Democratic], The New York Times
In 1910, Mahool signed city ordinance No. 610 prohibiting African-Americans from moving onto blocks where whites were the majority, and vice versa.{{cite book|title=The Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore|author=Baltimore (Md.)|page=204}} 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.Crenson, Matthew A. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AQhRh26XWb0C&pg=PA212 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)
Mahool lost a re-election bid in 1911 in the primary, losing to James H. Preston.[http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/012400/012485/html/12485bio.html J. Barry Mahool (1870-1935)], Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series), Retrieved May 8, 2012Coyle, Wilbur F. The Mayors of Baltimore, Baltimore Municipal Journal (1919)
Mahool died in Baltimore on July 29, 1935, nine days after suffering a fall in Ocean City, Maryland.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91117174/barry-mahool-dies-suddenly-at-hospital/ |title=Barry Mahool Dies Suddenly At Hospital |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |page=22 |date=1930-07-30 |access-date=2021-12-25 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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Category:Politicians from Baltimore County, Maryland
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