death_date predecessor successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
31 december 2010 bartholomew f. guida biagio dilieto democratic mayor of new haven , connecticut 18 august 1924 january 1 , 1976 frank logue
 1979 frank logue
frank logue

frank logue -lrb- august 18 , 1924 -- december 31 , 2010 -rrb- was the 25th mayor of new haven , connecticut , serving from 1976 to 1979 .
his mother was widowed , leaving her to support five children during the depression on a kindergarten teacher 's salary .
frank logue and his three brothers all attended yale university , where , after pearl harbor , they enlisted in the military reserves .
frank logue was called to active duty in 1943 , served as an infantry soldier in france , and returned to yale , graduating in 1948 , and going on to attend yale law school .
in the spring of 1947 , frank logue served as president of the yale political union .
logue entered politics in trumbull , connecticut in 1953 , becoming a democratic district leader , then a prosecutor , and then town attorney .
he ran for state representative in 1960 , and lost .
he served in the kennedy administration as a part-time staff person for the u.s. commission on civil rights .
at age 40 he moved his family to new haven , where he organized and directed an institute to train community organizers and neighborhood workers in the war on poverty .
he later created and directed `` national urban fellows '' , an urban leadership development program for minorities and women .
he was subsequently elected to the new haven board of aldermen , representing the city 's 18th ward for two two-year terms , from 1972 to 1975 .
bucking the new haven democratic party machine , he ran as a liberal reform candidate against the party 's candidate , incumbent bart guida , in the 1975 mayoral primary and went on to win the primary and the general election .
he took office as mayor on january 1 , 1976 .
logue ran as the standard bearer of liberal reformers looking to topple the party machine overseen by guida 's patron , the late party chairman arthur barbieri .
it was a heady campaign ; key workers included future congresswoman , rosa delauro ; presidential adviser , stan greenberg ; and state judge , thayer baldwin .
once in office , logue had the luck of presiding over the city during a period of national urban decline .
employers , retailers , and middle-class families finished a suburban exodus from new haven that began during the heady `` model city '' urban renewal period that saw a record amount of federal and foundation dollars pour into the city , only to leave it poorer .
in the late 1970s , much of downtown was boarded up and a general malaise had settled over the city .
logue was an early advocate of historic preservation , an antidote to the destruction of so much of the city 's landscape during urban renewal .
logue also believed the arts could help revitalize the city .
he came up with the original idea of reviving the shubert theater as part of a downtown arts renaissance , an idea his successor put into action along with an emphasis on preservation .
logue started the process of reviving downtown with the rehabilitation of the old taft hotel .
logue also helped push the state to create the pilot -lrb- payments in lieu of taxes -rrb- program for cities .
he won renomination in the september 1977 primary by a margin of 243 votes over challenger biagio dilieto and was re-elected to a second term in november of that year .
however , he lost the primary to dilieto in his bid for a third two-year term in 1979 .
frank logue 's brother edward , a yale law school graduate who married the daughter of william devane , dean of yale college , was an influential city planner who was mayor lee 's right-hand man on most administrative matters .
after leaving the mayor 's office , logue was an active civic volunteer in new haven and worked as a labor arbitrator and as a consultant to organizations including the ford foundation .
he died in hamden , connecticut , on december 31 , 2010 .
