Cecil O. Creal was mayor of Ann Arbor, in the U.S. state of Michigan

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, from 1959 to 1965.

Biography

Creal was born in 1899 in Kiantone

Kiantone, New York

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, Chautauqua County, New York

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. During World War I

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, he served in the U.S. Navy

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. Creal married Dama Godfrey of Ann Arbor in 1925. He was an Episcopalian. Creal had two sons, Richard and Robert.

Creal ran for Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, Michigan

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 mayor as a Republican

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 in 1959. He defeated Democrat

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 Lloyd M. Ives, and went on to win two more terms, triumphing over Democrats

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 Dorothee S. Pealy in 1961 and Albert F. Schneider in 1963. Creal did not run for a fourth term in 1965.

Creal died in Ann Arbor on November 20, 1986, and is buried at Forest Hill Cemetery

Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

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. Ann Arbor's Creal Park and Creal Crescent are both named after Mayor Creal.

Sources

• Mayors of Ann Arbor page at PoliticalGraveyard.com
• Arborweb "Weddings of Yore"
• Cecil O. Creal, Arborwiki