11.   After all, he would not be the first disembodied mayor to dispense advice from thousands of vehicles.

12.   Bredesen is trying to become the first urban mayor to be elected Governor in a state where the rural vote is critical.

13.   Brown is the first black elected mayor here.

14.   Brown is not the first mayor to globe-trot.

15.   But he may be the first mayor to accuse the governor and the Legislature in Albany of being deadbeats.

16.   But Rudolph Giuliani is the first mayor to vow to use those powers to the hilt.

17.   But the campaign for the first directly elected mayor of this city of eight million residents has caught British politicians ill-prepared, with embarrassing consequences all around.

18.   But there are also two serious candidates for mayor of Memphis, a city that only recently elected its first African-American mayor.

19.   Cisneros was the first Hispanic mayor of San Antonio in modern times.

20.   Cuauhtemoc Cardenas, the two-time presidential candidate of the PRD, is expected to win election as the first independent mayor of Mexico City.