  john olof norquist (born october 22, 1949, in princeton, new jersey) is an american politician and 37th mayor of milwaukee, wisconsin. he served as mayor from 1988 until he left office in 2004http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2004-01-03/news/0401030065_1_first-black-mayor-john-norquist-pratt to lead the congress for the new urbanism. ==personal background== norquist was born in princeton, new jersey, where his father, rev. ernest o. norquist was attending seminary. his mother is jeannette norquist. he is married to susan mudd and has one son, benjamin, and one daughter, katherine. susan is the descendant of samuel mudd, the doctor who treated president abraham lincoln's assassin, john wilkes booth. ==early political career== he was elected to the wisconsin state assembly in 1975, where he served until seeking and winning a seat in the wisconsin state senate in 1983. in 1974 he ran against completing the stadium south freeway, which was to run from milwaukee county stadium south to i-894. in 1974, nearly 50% of the freeway segment was either built or the land was cleared for construction. norquist opposed the stadium south despite his constituents voting for completion in the november 1974 milwaukee county freeway referenda. all five remaining milwaukee county freeway segments passed in the november 1974 referendum (complementing the april 1967 city vote in favor of the park east-lake freeway project). norquist joined forces with emerging generation of legislators including james moody (later a us representative) in opposing freeway expansion and was re-elected to the assembly and advanced to the state senate. while in the senate, norquist served on the powerful joint finance committee and was recognized by milwaukee magazine as a leading legislator. ==mayor of milwaukee== in 1988, norquist campaigned and won the job of mayor of milwaukee. his tenure as mayor of milwaukee came on the heels of the 28-year reign by [[h
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