1.   Following negotiations between the members of the ruling coalition, Franco Carraro was elected in mid-December as the first Socialist mayor of the city.

2.   The first black mayor of the city once represented progress, enthusiasm and verve.

3.   And he is white in a majority-black city now enjoying its first black mayor, who is seeking a third term.

4.   And some people here also suggest that racial tensions at work, as Williams is the first black mayor from either side.

5.   And the party signaled its arrival last year when Cardenas became the first mayor of Mexico City this century to be picked by popular election.

6.   As the first elected mayor of London, Livingstone has changed his tune.

7.   At the time the senator accused Gantt, the first black mayor of Charlotte, of supporting racial quotas and criticized him for raising campaign money in gay bars.

8.   Bassolino was the first mayor to be directly elected by voters, he notes.

9.   Blacks and Hispanics united to elect the late Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago.

10.   Abe Beame was struggling to avoid being the first elected mayor in more than half a century to be defeated for a second term.