Bowser, Muriel, 1972-

<p>Muriel Bowser is committed to making sure every Washingtonian gets a fair shot in a growing and prosperous Washington, DC. Her administration is focused on making DC’s prosperity more inclusive, advancing DC values, and building safer, stronger, and healthier neighborhoods across DC’s eight wards.</p>

<p>Washington, DC is unique in the American political system – the mayor, DC’s chief executive, functions as a governor, county executive, and mayor. Like governors, Mayor Bowser runs Medicaid, issues driver’s licenses, and has tax authority. Like county executives, Mayor Bowser runs the local jail, and, unlike most mayors, also oversees the public school system. In 2020, Washington, DC is home to 705,000 people across 68 square miles, has a AAA bond rating, and an annual budget of more than $15 billion.</p>

<p>On November 6, 2018, Muriel Bowser became the first woman ever re-elected as the Mayor of Washington, DC and the first mayor to earn a second term in 16 years. Since taking office, the Mayor has taken bold steps to reset DC’s global and national competitiveness, speed up affordable housing production, diversify the DC economy, increase satisfaction in city services, and invest in programs and policies that allow more families to live and thrive in DC.</p>

<p><b>RACES</b>
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<li>06/21/2022 DC Mayor - D Primary ???</li>
<li>11/06/2018 DC Mayor Won 76.39% (+67.06%)</li>
<li>06/19/2018 DC Mayor - D Primary Won 79.99% (+69.75%)</li>
<li>11/04/2014 DC Mayor Won 55.15% (+20.13%)</li>
<li>04/01/2014 DC Mayor - D Primary Won 43.38% (+10.76%)</li>
<li>11/06/2012 DC Council Ward 4 Won 97.25% (+94.51%)</li>
<li>04/03/2012 DC Council Ward 4 - D Primary Won 66.44% (+53.07%)</li>
<li>11/04/2008 DC Council Ward 4 Won 97.06% (+94.12%)</li>
<li>09/09/2008 DC Council Ward 4 - D Primary Won 75.16% (+55.58%)</li>
<li>05/01/2007 DC Council Ward 4 - Special Election Won 40.30% (+12.98%)</li>
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<p>Muriel E. Bowser is the 8th Mayor of Washington, D.C. On November 6, 2018, Bowser became the first woman ever re-elected as the Mayor of Washington, D.C. and the first mayor to earn a second term in 16 years. Bowser is the second female mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt. Bowser is also the second African American woman to be mayor. Bowser’s current term ends on January 2, 2023. She is one of the seven Black women mayors of America’s 100 largest cities.</p>

<p>Bowser was born August 2, 1972, in Washington and grew up in North Michigan Park in northeast D.C. area. She is the youngest child of Joe Bowser, a D.C. Public Schools facilities manager and community activist and Joan Bowser, a nurse. Bowser has five siblings, one sister and four brothers. She graduated from Elizabeth Seton High School, a private all-girls Catholic high school located in Bladensburg, Maryland and then earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from American University. She has received honorary Doctorates from Chatham University and Trinity University.Before being elected to city council, Bowser served on the Washington, D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission from 2004 to 2007. She was elected to the Council in 2007 in a special election called to fill the Ward 4 seat when it was vacated by Adrian Fenty, who was elected Mayor in 2006. She was Fenty’s campaign coordinator for the Ward 4, the northernmost ward in the city.</p>

<p>In 2008, Bowser announced her reelection campaign for the council. She won the election to a full term and was re-elected for a second term in 2012. Bowser represented Ward 4 on the Washington, D.C. Council serving from 2007 to 2015. On March 23, 2013, Bowser announced she would run for Mayor of the District of Columbia in the 2014 election. She won the election and took office on January 2, 2015.</p>

<p>Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (born August 2, 1972) is an American politician serving since 2015 as the eighth mayor of the District of Columbia. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. She is the second female mayor of the District of Columbia after Sharon Pratt, and the first woman to be reelected to that position.</p>

<p>Elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in 2004, Bowser was elected to the council in a special election in 2007, to succeed Adrian Fenty, who had been elected Mayor. She was reelected in 2008 and 2012 and ran for mayor in the 2014 election. She defeated incumbent mayor Vincent C. Gray in the Democratic primary and won the general election against three Independent and two minor party candidates with 55% of the vote. In 2018, she won a second term with 76% of the vote.</p>