Category: Politics and Government

CLEVELAND CITY HALL, dedicated in 1916, was the first such structure specifically built for and owned by the city. The earliest township government met in 1803 in a log cabin belonging to JAS. KINGSBURY. When the village was incorporated in 1815, a small frame building on Superior Ave. erected by Jas. Walworth was used as the village hall.

The CLEVELAND CONVENTION (31 May 1864) brought together a group of Republicans critical of Pres. Lincoln's conduct of the war who met in order to form a new political party and nominate a rival candidate to run against him in the 1864 election. About 200-300 delegates representing 10 states met at Chapin Hall in Cleveland, and established the new Radical Democracy party. John C.

The CLEVELAND LITTLE HOOVER COMMISSION was appointed by Mayor Ralph Locher and council president Jas. Stanton in Dec. 1965 to make an in-depth study of the city's administration to improve its operation and to make a long-range study of Cleveland's financial needs. The commission took its name and objective from the Hoover Commission, created by Pres. Truman to make a similar investigation of the federal government.

Year Name
1836-37 John W. Wiley
1836 Josiah Barber, Ohio City
1837, 1842 Francis A. Burrows, Ohio City
1838-39 Norman C.

CLEVELAND: NOW! was a joint public and private funding program for the revitalization of Cleveland which was announced by Mayor Carl B. Stokes 1 May 1968. Local businessmen, shocked by the April assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., agreed to cooperate with the city in a fundraising program to combat the ills of Cleveland's inner city in order to preserve racial peace.

Cleveland Peace Action, is a grassroots peace organization founded in 1981 as the Greater Cleveland Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. With the merger of the national Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and the national Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, Cleveland Peace Action took on its present name at the first National Peace Action Congress held in Cleveland in 1987.

The CLEVELAND REPUBLICAN was a campaign paper issued to promote the election of John Tyler as president. Published and edited by Emanuel Fisher, it first appeared on 2 May 1844 and continued at irregular intervals thereafter, at least through 18 July. Tyler withdrew from the race in favor of the Democratic nominee, Jas. K. Polk, on 20 Aug.


The CLEVELAND-CUYAHOGA COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY is the joint city-county board formed in 1968 to operate the Port of Cleveland. Although port authority proposals began circulating in the 1920s and 1930s, it wasn't until the 1950s that the Ohio general assembly authorized the creation of city, county, or joint city/county port authorities with the power to levy a voter-approved tax of up to .55 mill. Although the St.

CLEVELAND: NOW! was a joint public and private funding program for the revitalization of Cleveland which was announced by Mayor Carl B. Stokes 1 May 1968. Local businessmen, shocked by the April assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., agreed to cooperate with the city in a fundraising program to combat the ills of Cleveland's inner city in order to preserve racial peace.

The CLEVELANDER has survived 3 major format changes as the organ of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and its successor, the GREATER CLEVELAND GROWTH ASSN. Premiering as a monthly publication in May 1926, it contained 36 pages edited by Munson Havens and Lawrence L. Jewell.

CLIFFORD, WILLIAM H. (8 Apr. 1862-10 Jan. 1929), a black Republican politician, as an Ohio legislator played an important role electing MARCUS A. HANNA to the U.S. Senate, casting the deciding vote in Hanna's favor in Jan. 1898. A native Clevelander, Clifford worked 7 years for the Woodruff Palace Car Co. before embarking in public service and politics.

COE, LEON MELVILLE (5 Nov. 1845 - 31 Jan. 1931), also known as L. M.

The COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCER was a Whig daily introduced by Benjamin Andrews, formerly publisher of the Cleveland Herald. Cleveland's 4th daily, it appeared in Jan. 1838, after the merger of the Daily Gazette into the Herald and shortly before the reversion of the Advertiser to weekly status.

The COMMUNIST PARTY in Cleveland was a small, disciplined group of men and women involved in both political and labor activities who promoted the overthrow of American capitalism by revolutionary means in order to establish proletarian rule. The local Communist party was founded by Ohio and Cuyahoga County socialists belonging to the left-wing section of the national Socialist Party.

The CONFERENCE FOR PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL ACTION (CPPA) was held at Cleveland's Public Hall 4-5 July 1924 and endorsed the candidacy of Sen. Robt. M. LaFollette for president. The 800 conference delegates, largely made up of farmers and trade unionists, felt the senator represented their interests better than Republican and Democratic parties, who, in their view, had failed in their obligations to the American people.

COON, JOHN (28 July 1822 - 24 Sept. 1908) was an attorney, businessman, city official, newspaper publisher, and a leading politician in the local Whig and early Republican Parties.

The COSMOPOLITAN DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE OF CUYAHOGA COUNTY is a political organization of elected officials and citizens that represents the interests of Greater Cleveland's ethnic groups within the Democratic party. The league was formed on 2 Nov. 1932 by Felix T. Matia, director of public parks, who served as president. Municipal Judge George S.

COTNER, MERCEDES R. (March 1905-29 Nov.

COVERT, JOHN CUTLER (11 Feb. 1837-14 Jan. 1919) answered to the callings of journalist, politician, diplomat, and civic leader during a lifetime of 8 decades. He was born in Norwick, NY and brought in his youth to Cleveland, where he learned the printing trade in the job office of Timothy Snead and EDWIN COWLES.

COWLES, EDWIN W. (19 Sept. 1825-4 Mar. 1890), a prominent newspaper editor, was born in Austinburg, Ohio, and came to Cleveland in 1839 as a printing apprentice. In 1844 Cowles and Timothy Smead formed a printing partnership.

CROGHAN, GEORGE (1720-31 Aug. 1782) was a frontiersman, trader, and Indian agent who was born in Ireland and came to Pennsylvania in 1741. He served as a captain under Gen. Braddock, and later as Sir Wm. Johnson's deputy superintendent of Indian affairs.

CROWELL, JOHN (15 Feb. 1801-10 Mar 1883) was a well-known attorney, supporter of the Republican Party, and public speaker.

The CUYAHOGA COUNTY ARCHIVES, created in June 1975 as a department of the Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners, are the repository for the historical records of Cuyahoga County, and for current records requiring temporary maintenance.