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Briare was a businessman, in insurance, real estate, and a cookie shop.<ref>https://www.montereyherald.com/2006/12/11/ex-las-vegas-mayor-briare-dies/</ref> |
Briare was a businessman, in insurance, real estate, and a cookie shop.<ref>https://www.montereyherald.com/2006/12/11/ex-las-vegas-mayor-briare-dies/</ref> |
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In , Briare served in the [[Nevada Assembly]].<ref>https://newspaperarchive.com/las-vegas-sun-jun-20-1968-p-1/</ref> |
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1963-1971, Briare served as a [[Clark County Commissioner]].<ref>https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/many-nominated-for-the-first-100/</ref> |
1963-1971, Briare served as a [[Clark County Commissioner]].<ref>https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/many-nominated-for-the-first-100/</ref> |
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Briare was so positive about the city that people would ask him if he was the president of the Chamber of Commerce.<ref name=reviewjournal /> His obituary in the ''Las Vegas Review Journal'' noted that Briare's "public tenure came during a key time when control of casinos shifted from organized crime figures to corporations."<ref name=reviewjournal/> |
Briare was so positive about the city that people would ask him if he was the president of the Chamber of Commerce.<ref name=reviewjournal /> His obituary in the ''Las Vegas Review Journal'' noted that Briare's "public tenure came during a key time when control of casinos shifted from organized crime figures to corporations."<ref name=reviewjournal/> |
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==Personal life== |
==Personal life== |
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Revision as of 00:31, 12 March 2024
William H. Briare | |
|---|---|
| 18th Mayor of Las Vegas | |
| In office 1975–1987 | |
| Preceded by | Oran K. Gragson |
| Succeeded by | Ron Lurie |
| Personal details | |
| Born | William Hubert Briare July 13, 1930 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Died | December 8, 2006 (aged 76) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Resting place | Woodlawn Cemetery, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Profession | Politician |
| Signature |  |
William Hubert Briare (July 13, 1930 – December 8, 2006) was an American politician. He was the mayor of Las Vegas from 1975 to 1987.[1] Briare was a member of the Democratic Party.[1]
Early life
Briare was born, 13 July 1930, in Long Beach,[citation needed] Los Angeles County, California, [2] to Ruth Ann (née Lynch) and Army engineer William W. Briare, with a brother, Vincent[3].
Career
In 1955, Briare moved to Las Vegas.[citation needed]
Briare was a businessman, in insurance, real estate, and a cookie shop.[4]
In 1961—1963, Briare served in the fifty-first session of the Nevada Assembly.[5][6]
1963-1971, Briare served as a Clark County Commissioner.[7]
In 1971, he lost his first campaign for mayor of Las Vegas, Nevada to Oran K. Gragson.
In 1975, Briare was elected mayor of Las Vegas, in his next attempt, defeating Harry Reid.[8][9]
In 1976, he visited in Israel in a mission of 16 mayors from US cities who visited the Knesset.[citation needed]
In 1992, Briare was the Executive Director of Las Vegas Downtown Progress Association.[10]
In 1994, Briare ran for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, but lost to Lonnie Hammargren.[8]
Briare was so positive about the city that people would ask him if he was the president of the Chamber of Commerce.[1] His obituary in the Las Vegas Review Journal noted that Briare's "public tenure came during a key time when control of casinos shifted from organized crime figures to corporations."[1]
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Personal life
Briare has a twin brother, and two of his five sons are twins.[11] His only daughter, Linda, gave birth to twin girls.[11]
Briare married Jo (? - 1998), having 6 children, and after her death, he married Susan.[12]
On 13 May 1966, Briare and two other fishermen were rescued from a sand bar on Lake Mead.[13]
Briare died, 8 December 2006, of complications from Parkinson's disease[14] and Alzheimer’s disease,[12] in Las Vegas at the age of 76, and was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the City of Las Vegas.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d Schwartz, David McGrath (December 9, 2006). "Briare, well-traveled ex-mayor of Las Vegas, dies at age 76". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ https://californiabirthindex.org/birth/william_hubert_briare_born_1930_1343387
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-obituary-for/79724661/
- ^ https://www.montereyherald.com/2006/12/11/ex-las-vegas-mayor-briare-dies/
- ^ https://newspaperarchive.com/las-vegas-sun-jun-20-1968-p-1/
- ^
- ^ https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/many-nominated-for-the-first-100/
- ^ a b "Commissioner Briare". Commissioner Histories. Clark County, Nevada. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/harry-reid-indomitable-senate-leader-and-nevada-political-titan-dies-at-82-2494044/
- ^ https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/59270
- ^ a b https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/119594472/
- ^ a b https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-me-briare13-story.html
- ^ https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1011093370/
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20061216000919/https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16116971/
External links
- William H. Briare Special Collections and Archives, Lied Library, UNLV
- Bill Briare Family Park - City of Las Vegas, Nevada
- William H. Briare at Find a Grave
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1582015/
- John J Auer · 2019 · Movement and Change: Perspectives on Urban Gay Tourism and Gay Community Building of the Past (gay Las Vegas) Geography Doctorate Dissertation University of Nevada, Reno http://hdl.handle.net/11714/6006 https://scholarworks.unr.edu/handle/11714/6006
- "Mayor Briare has asked an opinion on doing away with the miscellaneous 'M-7' licensing category under which a bathhouse would fall."
- 1930 births
- 2006 deaths
- 20th-century mayors of places in Nevada
- Mayors of Las Vegas
- Democratic Party members of the Nevada Assembly
- Politicians from the Las Vegas Valley
- Politicians from Long Beach, California
- 20th-century American legislators
- Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Las Vegas)
- St. Ignatius College Preparatory alumni