Henry R. Luscher was a Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

-area community leader and politician who served two terms as the city's Public Safety Commissioner and several stints as the city's Mayor. All of his terms as Mayor of Mobile were when the title was co-extensive with the presidency of the City Commission. He was defeated for re-election in 1961 by challenger George E. McNally

George E. McNally

George E. McNally was a Mobile, Alabama-area community leader and politician who served the city as the city's Public Safety Commissioner and had a stint as the city's Mayor during the 1960s. His term as Mayor of Mobile was when the title was co-extensive with the presidency of the City Commission....

, the first open Republican

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 elected to office in Mobile since Reconstruction. Luscher had also served as King of the Mobile Carnival Association during his youth.