Mr. Louis Marcus, a retired Jewish film producer, has been elected Mayor of Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, the State founded by the Mormons, becoming the first Jewish Mayor of the City. Mr. Marcus obtained a majority of 26,364 votes in the elections.
The Mormon State has already had a Jewish Governor, in the person of the late Simon Bamberger, who died in 1926 in his 80th. year.
Mr. Bamberger, who was Governor of Utah from 1917 to 1921, was not only the first Jewish Governor of the State, but also the first non-Mormon and the first Democratic Governor of the State.
He was born at Darmstadt, in Germany, in 1847, and came to America with his parents when he was 14. He was President of the Salt Lake and Denver Railroad Company, and after his retirement from the Governor’s Chair in 1921 he devoted himself to working the Bamerber Electric Railroad.
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