Mayor jane byrne biography of abraham

Jane Byrne made history in 1979 when she became the first woman elected mayor of Chicago.

She was the first woman to be elected mayor of a major city in the United States.

Jane Byrne made history on April 3, 1979, when she became the first woman elected mayor of a major American city.

Jane Wigham was born circa 1896, in birth place.

Jane Byrne was born in 1933 in Chicago.

Jane Byrne made history on April 3, 1979, when she became the first woman elected mayor of a major American city.!

Byrne, Jane (—)

American politician and first woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois. Born Jane Margaret Burke in Chicago, Illinois, on May 24, ; daughter and second oldest of six children of William (an executive with Inland Steel and co-founder of Gordon-Burke Steel) and Katherine (Nolan) Burke; attended Queen of All Saints grammar school; Saint Scholastica High School; B.A., Barat College of the Sacred Heart, ; attended University of Illinois and Chicago Teachers College (now Chicago State University); married William P.

Byrne (a Marine Corps pilot), December 31, (died, May ); married Jan McMullen (a reporter), March 17, ; children: (first marriage) daughter Katherine.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, in , Jane Byrne was the daughter of a wealthy steel executive.

In , she abandoned her dream of becoming a doctor to marry William Byrne, a marine pilot; he was killed in , two years after the birth of the couple's daughter. As an antidote for the depression that followed, Byrne became in