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National Civic League

The National Civic League is an organization

Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
founded in 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population city in the United States. It is the fifth-largest metropolitan area and fourth-largest urban area by population in the United States, the nation's fourth-largest consumer media market as ranked by the Nielsen Media Research, and the 49th-most...
at a meeting of politicians, policy-makers, journalists, and educators (including Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
, Louis Brandeis

Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon....
, Marshall Field

Marshall Field

Marshall Field was founder of Marshall Field's, the Chicago-based department stores....
, and Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted was an United States journalist, landscape designer and father of American landscape architecture, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York, New York....
) to discuss the future of American

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
cities

City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
. Originally called the National Municipal League, it aimed to increase the transparency and honesty of city governments, and share knowledge between cities.

It is best known for its All-America City Award

All-America City Award

The All-America City Award is given by the National Civic League annually to ten cities in the United States.The award is the oldest community recognition program in the nation and recognizes communities whose citizens work together to identify and tackle community-wide challenges and achieve uncommon results....
, given to ten communities annually.

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The National Civic League is an organization

Organization

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt , also known as T.R., and to the public as Teddy, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States....
, Louis Brandeis

Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon....
, Marshall Field

Marshall Field

Marshall Field was founder of Marshall Field's, the Chicago-based department stores....
, and Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted

United States

City

All-America City Award

**Presidents of the League**
Name	Term
James C. Carter	1894 – 1903
Charles J. Bonaparte Charles Joseph Bonaparte Charles Joseph Bonaparte was a member of the United States United States Cabinet, serving appointments by President Theodore Roosevelt as United States Secretary of the Navy, then as Attorney General of the United States....	1903 – 1910
William D. Foulke	1910 – 1915
Lawson Purdy	1915 – 1919
Charles E. Hughes Charles Evans Hughes Charles Evans Hughes Sr. was a lawyer and United States Republican Party politician from the State of New York. He served as Governor of New York , United States Secretary of State , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States ....	1919 – 1921
Henry M. Waite	1921 – 1923
Frank L. Polk Frank Polk Frank Lyon Polk was a prominent lawyer and a name partner of the law firm today known as Davis Polk & Wardwell. He graduated from Yale College and Columbia University Law School ....	1923 – 1927
Richard S. Childs	1927 – 1931
Murray Seasongood Murray Seasongood Murray Seasongood served as the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1926-1930. After his tenure as mayor, Seasongood was appointed as professor of law at Harvard University....	1931 – 1934
Harold W. Dodds Harold W. Dodds Harold Willis Dodds was the fifteenth President of Princeton University....	1934 – 1937
Clarence A. Dykstra Clarence Addison Dykstra Clarence Addison Dykstra was a United States of America Administration . He served as the first director of the Selective Service System between 1940 and 1941, chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1937-1945, and chancellor of University of California, Los Angeles from 1945-1950....	1937 – 1940
John G. Winant John Gilbert Winant John Gilbert Winant was an United States teacher and Republican Party politician from Concord, New Hampshire. Born in New York City, Winant held positions in New Hampshire, national, and international politics....	1940 – 1946
Charles Edison Charles Edison Charles Edison , son of Thomas Edison, was a businessman, Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the List of Governors of New Jersey Governor of New Jersey of New Jersey....	1946 – December, 1950
Henry Bruère	January, 1951 – November, 1953
George H. Gallup George Gallup George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistics of survey sampling for measuring opinion polls....	December, 1953 – November, 1956
Cecil Morgan Cecil Morgan Cecil Morgan, Sr. , was a leader of the legislative forces that in 1929 impeachment Louisiana Governor Huey Long Later, Morgan was an executive of Long's nemesis, the former Standard Oil Company, and the dean of the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans....	December, 1956 – December, 1959
William Collins	January, 1960 – November, 1962
Alfred E. Driscoll Alfred E. Driscoll Alfred Eastlack Driscoll of Haddonfield, New Jersey, was an United States Republican Party politician, who served in the New Jersey Senate representing Camden County, New Jersey, who served as the List of Governors of New Jersey Governor of New Jersey of New Jersey, and as president of Warner-Lambert ....	December, 1962 – 1970
William W. Scranton William Scranton William Warren Scranton is a former U.S. Republican Party Politics. Scranton served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. From 1976 to 1977, he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations....	1970 – November, 1972
Wilson W. Wyatt Wilson W. Wyatt Wilson Watkins Wyatt served as Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1941 to 1945 and as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1959 to 1963. He was a member of the Democratic Party ....	December, 1972 – November, 1975
Carl H. Pforzheimer	December, 1975 – November, 1978
December, 1978 – November, 1981
James L. Hetland, Jr.	December, 1981 – November, 1985
Terry Sanford Terry Sanford James Terry Sanford was a United States politician and educator from North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party , Sanford was the Governor of North Carolina , a two-time President of the United States in the 1970s and a United States Senator .... Board,	Dec, 1985 – November, 1986
John Parr - Staff	-	Hon. John Gardner, Board Chair,	1994-1996
Hon. George Latimer, Board chair	1993
Hon. Henry G. Cisneros, Board Chair	-	Hon. William F. Winter, Board Chair	1988-1989, 1993)
Terrell Blodgett, Board Chair	1987-1988
Christopher T. Gates - Staff	1995 – June 14, 2006
Hon. Bill Bradley, Board Chair	1996-1998
Hon. R. Scott Fosler, Board Chair	1998-2000
2000-2004
Derek Okubo (interim) -Staff	-	Robert Rawson, Jr., Board Chair	-	Elizabeth Hollander, Interim Board Chair	2007-2008
Gloria Rubio-Cortes - Staff	January 2007-present
Nov 2007-present

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