George Latimer (Minnesota siyasa)

**George Latimer** (23 ga Yuni, 1935 – 18 ga Agusta, 2024) ɗan siyasa ne ɗan Amurka wanda ya yi aiki a matsayin magajin garin Saint Paul, Minnesota, babban birnin jihar, daga 1976 zuwa 1990. A matsayinsa na memba na DFL kuma lauyan ma'aikata ta hanyar sana'a, Latimer an san shi da sake gina tsakiyar birnin St. Paul, yana aiki a matsayin magajin gari a lokacin da yawan jama'ar St. Paul ke raguwa yayin da wasu mazauna birnin suka ƙaura zuwa yankunan da ke kewayen birni yayin da bambancin ƙabilu na birnin ya ƙaru, yayin da, da sauransu, 'yan gudun hijirar Hmong daga Vietnam da Laos suka sake zama a Saint Paul.

## Rayuwa da aiki
An haifi Latimer a Schenectady, New York . Ya halarci Kwalejin Saint Michael da Makarantar Shari'a ta Columbia kuma ya yi aikin lauya a Saint Paul daga 1963 har zuwa lokacin da aka zaɓe shi magajin gari. Latimer ya fito ne daga zuriyar Irish da Lebanon .  A shekarar 1984, ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban ƙungiyar birane ta ƙasa . 

A shekarar 1986, Latimer bai yi nasarar neman takarar gwamna a jam'iyyar DFL ba, inda ya sha kaye a hannun mai ci Rudy Perpich . Abokin takararsa shi ne Arvonne Fraser, matar magajin garin Minneapolis Donald M. Fraser . Perpich ya ci zaben gama gari.

A shekarar 1987, Latimer ya yi aiki a matsayin memba na kwamitin zaɓe don lambar yabo ta Rudy Bruner don Ingantaccen Birane . 

A shekarar 1987, Magajin Garin Saint Paul George Latimer ya sanya tam o'shanter sannan ya ba wa wadanda suka yi nasara a gasar Marathon Twin Cities a lokacin kammala gasar lambar yabo. 

Bayan ya yi aiki a matsayin shugaban makarantar shari'a ta Jami'ar Hamline daga 1990 zuwa 1993, sannan kuma ya zama mai ba da shawara na musamman ga Henry Cisneros, sakataren gidaje da ci gaban birane na Shugaba Bill Clinton, daga 1993 zuwa 1995.

Latimer ƙwararre ne kan harkokin birane da ci gaban birane, ya yi lacca kan waɗannan batutuwa a matsayinsa na farfesa mai ziyara a fannin Nazarin Birane da Geography a Kwalejin Macalester da ke Saint Paul tun daga shekarar 1996.

Daga Janairu 1996 zuwa Janairu 1998, Latimer shine Babban Jami'in Gudanarwa na Asusun Daidaito na Ƙasa, wanda ke kula da gidaje kusan 27,000 a birane 35 kuma yana samar da gidaje masu araha ga ma'aikata ta hanyar amfani da Katin Harajin Ƙasa Mai Sauƙi .

Latimer ya shafe shekaru da dama yana cikin harkokin kasuwanci, inda ya yi aiki tun daga shekarar 2001 a matsayin darakta na Indentix Incorporated (wanda a da Visionics ne har zuwa lokacin da suka hade da Indentix a shekarar 2002). Ya yi aiki a zaman zartarwa na Makarantar Harvard Kennedy kan manufofi a Jami'ar Harvard da kuma Regent na Jami'ar Minnesota . Ya kuma yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a matsayin mai sasantawa na ma'aikata .  An sake wa Laburaren St Paul Central suna zuwa George Latimer Central Library a shekarar 2014 don girmama shi daga magajin garin lokacin Chris Coleman. 

Latimer yana ɗaya daga cikin mutane da dama da suka yi waƙar yabo a wurin jana'izar jama'a, wadda aka gudanar a Jami'ar Minnesota kuma aka watsa ta gidajen rediyo da kuma C-SPAN, bayan mutuwar Sanata Paul Wellstone na Amurka.

A watan Yunin 2022, an mayar da Latimer zuwa wani asibiti, amma daga baya aka sallame shi daga kula da shi.  Latimer ya mutu a wani gidan ritaya da ke Saint Paul a ranar 18 ga Agusta, 2024, yana da shekaru 89. 

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