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Peter Flaherty

Peter F. Flaherty
Member of the Allegheny County
Board of Commissioners
In office
January 2, 1984 – January 1, 1996
Preceded by Cyril Wecht
Succeeded by Michael Dawida
United States Deputy Attorney General
In office
April 12, 1977 – 1978
President Jimmy Carter
Preceded by Harold R. Tyler, Jr.
Succeeded by Benjamin Civiletti
54th Mayor of Pittsburgh
In office
January 5, 1970 – April 11, 1977
Preceded by Joe Barr
Succeeded by Richard Caligiuri
Personal details
Born Peter Francis Flaherty
(1924-06-25)June 25, 1924
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died April 18, 2005(2005-04-18) (aged 80)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Nancy Flaherty, Charlene Conely Musser (m. 1998)
Alma mater Carlow University
Notre Dame University (Law)
Profession Assistant District Attorney; City Council
Religion Roman Catholic

Peter Francis "Pete" Flaherty (June 25, 1924 – April 18, 2005) was an American politician from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He served as Assistant District Attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1957 to 1964; a City of Pittsburgh Councilman 1966 to 1970; Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh from 1970 to 1977; United States Deputy Attorney General during the Carter administration from 1977 to 1978, and County Commissioner of Allegheny County from 1984 to 1996.

Flaherty was born and raised on Pittsburgh's North Side. He served in the United States Air Force during World War II and used the G.I. Bill to become the first in his family to attend college. He graduated from Carlow University in three years, then graduated cum laude from Notre Dame Law School and became a member of the Pennsylvania Bar. He developed his own legal practice which included the Pittsburgh Steelers among his clients.

In 1965, Flaherty led the Democratic Party ticket when he was elected to City Council. Four years later in 1969 he easily won as "Nobody's Boy" against the Democratic Party machine candidate, Judge Harry A. Kramer, in the primary election. In the general election Flaherty beat the Republican, John K. Tabor. Four years later, in the 1973 election, Flaherty was re-elected by winning the Democratic primary and the Republican primary, the latter through write in votes. He was the only mayoral candidate to have achieved this feat in Pittsburgh's history; it would not be achieved again until by incumbent Mayor Luke Ravenstahl in 2009.[1] He first campaigned for Mayor with the promise to return the Mayor's Office to the neighborhoods instead of the "special interests".


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