Jane Byrne
Jane Margaret Byrne was an American politician who was the 50th Mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979 to April 29, 1983. She was the first and only female mayor of Chicago, the second largest city in the United States at the time, and the largest U.S. city to have had a female mayor to date. Byrne first entered politics to volunteer in John F. Kennedys campaign for president in 1960. During that campaign she first met Mayor Richard J. Daley.
Byrne was born Jane Margaret Burke on May 24, 1933. In 1956, she married William P. Byrne, a Marine. The couple had a daughter, Katherine C. Byrne . On May 31, 1959, while flying from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point to Naval Air Station Glenview in a Skyraider, Lt. Byrne attempted to land in a dense fog. After being waved off for landing twice, his planes wing struck the porch of a nearby house and the plane crashed into Sunset Memorial Park, killing him. Byrne married journalist Jay McMullen in 1978, and they remained married until his death from lung cancer in 1992. Byrne lived in the same apartment building from the 1970s until her death in 2014. She has one grandchild, Willie. Her daughter, Kathy, is a lawyer with a Chicago firm. Mayor Byrnes book, My Chicago , was published in 1992, and covers her life through her political career. On May 16, 2011, Byrne attended the inauguration of the citys new mayor, Rahm Emanuel.
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