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ed winborn incumbent roman catholic davenport , iowa 5 democratic bill gluba
 mayor of davenport , iowa 7 october 1942 74th davenport , iowa january 1 , 2008 bill gluba.jpg trish bill gluba university of iowa and st. ambrose university
bill gluba

bill gluba is the current mayor of davenport , iowa .
born in davenport , he received a bachelor 's degree in political science from st. ambrose university in davenport .
he received a master 's degree in political science from the university of iowa .
in 1963 , he took part in the historic march on washington for jobs and freedom .
he served on the scott county , iowa , board of supervisors -lrb- 1977 -- 1980 -rrb- as well as in the iowa state house -lrb- 1971 -- 72 -rrb- and senate -lrb- 1973 -- 76 -rrb- as a democrat .
he has unsuccessfully run for congress in iowa 's 1st congressional district three times , first against congressman jim leach in 1982 -lrb- leach 59.2 % - gluba 40.8 % -rrb- and again in 1988 -lrb- leach 60.7 % - gluba 38.4 % -rrb- .
in 2004 he was nominated to run against incumbent congressman jim nussle and was defeated -lrb- nussle 55 % - gluba 44 % -rrb- .
in 2006 , nussle decided to not seek another term in congress , but instead run for the office of iowa governor as tom vilsack was not seeking another term for that office .
gluba , rick dickinson of dubuque , and bruce braley had declared themselves candidates to be the representative for the democratic leaning district that includes dubuque , davenport , and waterloo as its largest cities .
braley later won the primary , and subsequently won the seat in the november 2006 general election .
on august 31 , 2007 , gluba officially filed as a candidate for mayor of his hometown of davenport , iowa .
he faced former mayor phil yerington and at-large alderwoman jamie howard in the primary .
on primary day , october 9 , gluba won , receiving 4,784 votes , or 45.33 % .
gluba faced yerington , who placed second with 3,495 votes , or 33.12 % , in a runoff held on november 6 , 2007 .
gluba defeated yerington , with 10,544 votes or 62 % percent .
in 2009 and 2011 gluba ran for a second and third term as mayor unopposed .
in 2013 , he won election to a fourth term with 65 % of the vote .
gluba has also worked as a real estate broker with re/max river cities .
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