Ed Pawlowski
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| 41st Mayor of Allentown | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Roy Afflerbach |
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| Born | June 4, 1965 (Age 51) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Lisa Pawlowski |
| Children | Alex Mercy |
| Alma mater |
Moody Bible Institute University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign |
Ed Pawlowski is the three-term Mayor of Allentown in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. He has held this position since January 2006.
Pawlowski announced on April 17, 2015, that he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2016, but he suspended his campaign the following July. He was a candidate for Pennsylvania governor in 2014, but dropped out of the race in February after “it became clear that he was not going to be able to raise the necessary money.”
Ed Pawlowski was born to small business owners in Chicago. The family owned and operated a popular Polish restaurant on the City's North Side. Pawlowski attended school in Chicago and Addison, IL, where he earned his High School Diploma in 1983. Following his high school graduation, he enrolled at Moody Bible Institute, in Chicago, IL, where he received his bachelor's degree. He went on to earn a master's degree in Urban Planning and Public Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Pawlowski has been married for 25 years to Lisa, a community activist and licensed social worker in Allentown, who he met at Moody. They have two children, Mercy and Alex, both of whom attend Allentown public schools.
After his years at MBI, Pawlowski then worked as a Community Organizer in Chicago's Southwest Side, focusing on helping residents find quality, affordable housing and improving their quality of life.
Pawlowski then enrolled at the University of Illinois to pursue his master's degree in Urban Planning and Public Policy. He was then hired to be the Executive Director of Windows of Opportunity, the non-profit subsidiary of the Chicago Housing Authority, where he supervised the development of special programs and self-sufficiency projects designed to help Chicago’s public housing residents, which at the time numbered more than 100,000.
In 1996 he became Executive Director of Lehigh Housing Development Corporation, which under his leadership expanded to six counties and over 50 employees, becoming a regional community development corporation now known as Alliance for Building Communities.
Due to his success in reviving and strengthening this organization, he was recruited to the post of Director of Community and Economic Development for the City of Allentown by then-mayor Roy Afflerbach. Pawlowski was then recruited to challenge Afflerbach for Mayor by dozens of community activists and business leaders who believed the City was headed in the wrong direction.
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