Jerry Abramson
Personal Profile
Jerry Abramson
Birth Name:
Jerry Edwin AbramsonDate of Birth:
September 12, 1946Zodiac Sign:
VirgoPlace of Birth:
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.Sex:
MaleNationality:
AmericanReligion:
JudaismEducation:
Seneca High School, Louisville, KY
BS Business Economics, Indiana University Bloomington
Georgetown University Law School
Family
Jerry Abramson
Spouse:
MadelineSon:
Sidney
Career
Jerry Abramson
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Jerry Abramson
- He lives in the Crescent Hill neighborhood with his wife, Madeline.
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- Abramson is the first person of Jewish faith to have served as mayor of Louisville.
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- Abramson was re-elected mayor in November 2006; his opponent was Metro Council member Kelly Downard (R).
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- One of Abramson's first actions as Metro Mayor was to appoint Robert C. White Chief of the troubled Louisville Metro Police Department, the first African-American to hold the post.
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- Abramson was easily elected Louisville's first Metro Mayor in 2002 by 73.4 percent of the vote over Republican challenger Jack Early, former mayor of Hurstbourne, Kentucky, a major suburb of Louisville.
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Biography
Jerry Abramson
Last Updated: Thursday, September 17, 2009Jerry Edwin Abramson is a Democratic politician who isthe longest serving Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky. Before his current term as the Metro Mayor of the merged city-county government Louisville Metro (a merger he championed), Abramson was the only person to have served three terms as Mayor of Louisville, fulfilling the allowed term limit. Abramson's original third term was extended by one year as part of a state-mandated transition to align the dates of local and federal elections.
Abramson's long period of service to Louisville as its mayor, as well as the fact that Abramson has never faced strong opposition in mayoral elections heretofore, has led to the nickname of "mayor for life" being used locally, including by Louisville's own popular radio personality Terry Meiners. Abramson's popularity has resulted in Bluegrass Poll approval ratings ranging from a 91 percent high in 1990 to a 73 percent low in 1994.
From 1993 to 1994, he was President of the United States Conference of Mayors. He is currently a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor Thomas Menino. On July 19, 2009, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that Abramson would be his running mate in his re-election campaign in 2011.