Mrs. Adlene Harrison became the first Jewish woman mayor of a metropolitan city last week when her fellow members of the City Council elected her as Mayor Pro-Tem after Mayor Wes Wise resigned to run for a Congressional seat. Mrs. Harrison is both the first Jew and the first woman to serve as Mayor of Dallas, the eighth largest city in the nation.
Mrs. Harrison, who has been on the Council for several years, has indicated that she will not run for the mayoralty when an election is held in April, but instead will remain on the City Council. There are some 25,000 Jews in metropolitan Dallas out of a total population of more than one million.
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