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Arthur "Art" Schultz (July 4, 1933 – November 26, 2011) was an American Republican politician. He was a five-term mayor of Joliet, Illinois, the fourth largest municipality in the state after Chicago, Aurora, and Rockford.〔 He was last elected in April 2007. Prior to his first election, he served in the United States Navy and in the Joliet Police Department.〔 He finished as the first runner-up in the Joliet City Council election of 1989, but when a sitting councilwoman died a few months after the election he was passed over several times for the nomination. This was controversial as the nomination is customarily given to the runner-up in the most recent election.〔 He returned to elective politics to defeat the mayor, who did not nominate him in the subsequent election in 1991.〔 In his time in office, Joliet changed from an economy of a prison town with declining population〔 to a fast-growing entertainment and tourism economy,〔 focused on riverboat casinos. Residential and commercial construction increased and racing tracks, a baseball stadium, and several civic works developed as a result of the booming economy.〔 ==Personal life== Schultz was born on July 4, 1933〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arthur Schultz "Art", Obituaries | Tezak's Home to Celebrate Life® )〕 and raised in Joliet. He attended parochial schools in the city,〔 and was an altar boy. Schultz was a graduate of Joliet Catholic High School. After high school, he served four years in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He then worked for the Joliet Police Department for 29 years before being elected mayor in 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mayor Arthur Schultz )〕 Schultz and his wife were married on November 6, 1954 at the Cathedral of St. Raymond in Joliet. As of his 50th wedding anniversary in 2004, Schultz had five children and eight grandchildren.〔〔 On November 16, 1993 Schultz had a laryngectomy after having had vocal chord tumors removed the previous May. He lost his voice for a period before regaining it after several months of home recuperation with the aid of a voice prosthesis that was inserted into a neck valve.〔 Schultz suffered congestive heart failure on November 14, 2011, which required hospital care. He died on November 26, 2011, aged 78. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Schultz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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