death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor title party birth_date term article_title name
new albany , indiana , u.s.a. 23 november 1929 robert emmet king frankfort , kentucky , u.s.a. charles p. weaver mayor of louisville republican party 19 april 1856 1896-1897 george davidson todd
 george davidson todd
george davidson todd

george davidson todd was mayor of louisville , kentucky from 1896 to 1897 .
his descendants were early settlers of kentucky , and his father , harry innes todd , was a two-term sheriff of franklin county , kentucky as well as state prison trustee and warden .
george davidson todd came to louisville at age 18 to work for the w.b. belknap hardware company .
he started his own company , the `` todd-donigan iron company '' , in 1880 .
he served as treasurer of the state republican party , and became the first republican elected mayor of louisville -lrb- robert emmet king had served as mayor `` pro tem '' for two weeks -rrb- .
todd finished out the term of democrat henry s. tyler who had died in office .
his term as mayor was complicated by a split within his own party over political appointments , and he lost his bid for re-election in 1897 .
after his term as mayor he returned to his iron company and moved to new albany , indiana in the 1920s .
