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Leonard J. Russell (1932〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Leonard J. Russell: 1932-1985 (obituary) )〕 – June 16, 1985) was a mayor (council chairman) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and husband of mayor Sheila Russell. Russel, a former waste disposal manager,〔 represented traditional conservative blue collar workforce of Cambridge〔 at the time when traditional neighborhoods were giving up to pressure from expanding universities and high technology companies.〔〔 Russell joined Cambridge local politics during the 1973 municipal council election. Two years later he won the council seat, followed by re-elections in 1979, 1981 and 1983. Russell launched his career as an independent candidate on a platform for a professional city management, and joined the bi-partisan coalition that was established to elect Walter J. Sullivan as mayor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Political history of Cambridge in the 20th century )〕 Russell remained in alliance with Sullivan and in opposition to Cambridge Civic Association for most of his tenure,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Council Sets Modern Record With Eight Minute Meeting )〕 although eventually Sullivan sided with CCA. Russell was elected mayor of Cambridge in January 1984; it was his fourth attempt for a mayor's seat.〔 At first, the city council was split, with incumbent Alfred Vellucci and three other candidates, including Russell, competing for the job; media predicted a protracted campaign like that of 1948, when it took 43 weeks to elect a candidate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=City powerbrokers )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Boston Gets a New Mayor, Cambridge-Not Quite )〕 Russell, this time in alliance with liberal council members,〔 nevertheless was elected after only four weeks of debate.〔 He was immediately involved into clashes around the firing of long-term School Superintendent William Lannon, accused of political patronage but supported by the parents;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Angry Parents Rekindle School Chief Controversy )〕 the situation temporarily defused only in the end of October〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Peterkin Assumes Helm of City Schools )〕 and was followed by a work-to-rule action by schoolteachers in November.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=City Teachers Refuse Work )〕 He also had to moderate local campaign against nerve gas testing at Arthur D. Little.〔〔Arthur D. Little of 1984 is related to a current company of the same name only though this name. The original ADL was liquidated in 2002.〕 In another controversial move, Russell spoke to "stop the expansion of MIT and Harvard into Cambridge's neighborhoods" and intervened against Harvard University plans, declaring his intention to take the property owned by Harvard on eminent domain terms and redevelop it into low-income public housing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=City Threatens to Snag Harvard Land )〕 Russell himself, speaking on the first anniversary of mayoral election, claimed local ordinances on human rights and on suppression of smokers to be his most important achievements of this year.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=City Bitties )〕 The controversial smoking ordinance, enacted in July 1984, banned tobacco smoking in restaurants, except for specially designated smoking areas. Russell said, "I was in favor because people should be able to go out and enjoy a meal without being disturbed by others smoking".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eIJD6zS0UnAJ:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html%3Fres%3D9506E5D61239F934A35754C0A962948260%26sec%3Dtravel%26spon%3D%26pagewanted%3D1+Leonard+J.+Russell+cambridge+born&cd=15&hl=en&ct=clnk )〕 After his death media disclosed that Russell was already fighting cancer when elected mayor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Russell's Ballots to Be Recounted To Fill Vacant City Council Seat )〕 Shortly after his death, the state of Massachusetts renamed Huron Avenue Bridge after Russell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Russell's Friends Pay Tribute to His Memory )〕 Harvard University established six,〔 now (2009) three Leonard Russell scholarships for local municipal employees.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.communityservice.harvard.edu/programs/leonard-j-russell-scholarships )〕 ==References== 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「Leonard J. Russell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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