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Mayor Schiro considered the arrival of the New Orleans Saints professional football team and the beginning of plans to build the Louisiana Superdome to be two of the foremost achievements of his administration.
May 1, 2008 · That’s the perfect slogan for the 1960s-era Mayor of New Orleans, Victor Hugo Schiro, a cheerful, positive-thinking, unabashed booster and promoter of his city. He wasn’t tall and commanding; in fact President Lyndon B. Johnson sometimes referred to him as “the little mayor.”
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Sep 4, 2015 · In his new book, Mayor Victor Schiro: New Orleans in Transition, 1961-1970, author Edward Haas examines Schiro’s role in the establishment of the Louisiana Superdome and the mayor’s negotiations with Governor John McKeithen, who championed the investment of state funds for the New Orleans stadium.
Aug 2, 2024 · Victor H. Schiro sat on the New Orleans City Council as Councilman-at-Large in 1961. So, in July of that year, then-mayor Chep Morrison resigned his office. President Kennedy appointed Morrison Ambassador to the Organization of American States. The City Council filled the vacancy by electing Schiro.
Victor Hugo Schiro (1904-1992) served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1961-1969. When DeLesseps S. Morrison resigned his position as Mayor in 1961 to become U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States, the City Council elected Schiro, then Councilman-At-Large, as interim mayor.
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Vic Schiro was mayor of the City of New Orleans from 1961-1969. Known to many as “Ribbon-Cutting Vic”, Schiro believed public displays of progress were good for the city.
Morrison's successor in city hall was fifty-seven-year-old Councilman-at-Large Victor Hugo Schiro. Schiro, a local insurance executive, had entered politics in 1950 as Morrison's.
