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Long Ago Westlake: Mayor Kirk is Sworn In

Check out this photo of Westlake's first four-year mayor pulled from the Cleveland Memory Project archives.

John T. Kirk (left) was sworn by Rocky River Municipal Judge Milton D. Holmes before a standing-room-only crowd in the Westlake City Hall on Jan. 2, 1962.

Kirk's was the first four-year administration in Westlake history.

For more from the Cleveland State University library archives, go to clevelandmemory.org.


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