Myrna Williams (politician)
| Myrna Williams | |
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Clark County (Nevada) Commissioner from district "E" |
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In office January 2, 1995 – January 1, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Thalia M. Dondero |
| Succeeded by | Chris Giunchigliani |
| Member of the Nevada Assembly from the 10th district |
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In office 1985–1995 |
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| Preceded by | John Viergiels |
| Succeeded by | David Goldwater |
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Myrna Torme August 26, 1929 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Occupation | Politician |
Myrna Torme Williams (born August 26, 1929) is an American politician. She was a political figure whose career extends from 1985 to 2007 and includes ten years in the Nevada Assembly as well as twelve years in the local government of Clark County, which encompasses the city of Las Vegas. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Myrna Torme was born in Chicago to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants and, while her mother was born after her family arrived in America, her father, William, called "Bill", was a child dancer in Russia who had won dozens of contests and even took lessons from the legendary master of the ballet, Vaslav Nijinsky. Coming to America at the age of eleven, along with his father, mother and two younger brothers, he saw his youngest sibling, sister Faye, who was born in New York, achieve fame as the "Wonder Frisco Dancer" when, almost immediately following the family's move to Chicago in 1917, at the outbreak of World War I, she became a star performer at war bond rallies.
In Summer 1923, Bill Torme met Betty Sopkin at a wedding reception in the Morrison Hotel and they subsequently married in January 1924, with their first child, son Melvin, arriving in September 1925. In his autobiography, It Wasn't All Velvet, Melvin, who gained stardom as the recording artist, songwriter and personality, Mel Tormé, recounts that the family surname had originally been "Torma", but an Ellis Island immigration official inscribed it as "Torme". Three weeks before his fourth birthday, and two months before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, his mother gave birth to his only sister, Myrna, who, according to him, was named after Myrna Loy, a young silent-screen actress still five years away from becoming a major movie star. He describes young Myrna as an especially pretty baby that, at the age of ten months, developed meningitis and required the removal of a mastoid, which left her with lifelong astigmatism.
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