- Jere Wood
Infobox Mayor
order = Mayor of Roswell, Georgia
name =Jere Wood
residence =Roswell, Georgia
term_start =January 1 ,1997
term_end =present
predecessor = W. L. "Pug" Mabry
successor =Incumbent
party = Republican
profession =Attorney
spouse = Judie Raiford
alma_mater =University of Georgia
website = http://www.jerewood.comJere Wood is the Republican
mayor ofRoswell, Georgia and as of 2007 is currently serving his third consecutive term. Mayor Wood defeated Democrat "Pug" Mabry, who served as mayor for over thirty years, in the election of 1997. Wood ran unchallenged and secured re-election in 2001. Wood is the son of Roy "Splinter" Wood, a Democrat, who was Undersecretary of theUnited States Department of the Interior (DOI) during theCarter Administration in the 1970s. Wood won the mayor's race again in the election held in November of 2005. Wood is married to Judie Raiford, an award-winning artist and owner of Raiford Gallery on historic downtown Roswell's Canton Street. Raiford's father was Dr. Morgan Raiford, founder of The Atlanta Eye Clinic in the 1960s.Mayor Wood is a member of the
Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition , [cite web| url=http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/about/members.shtml| title=Mayors Against Illegal Guns: Coalition Members Retrieved onJune 12 ,2007 ] ,an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired byNew York City mayorMichael Bloomberg andBoston mayorThomas Menino .References
External links
* [http://www.jerewood.com Official site]
* [http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org Mayors Against Illegal Guns homepage]Persondata
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