first selectman
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His funeral in Greenwich, Connecticut, a town where he was once the first selectman, drew family, friends and politicians from both parties.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2023
“It’s been done before, and every situation that’s out there ends with negative consequences,” Rudy Marconi, first selectman of Ridgefield, Conn., said this week, via the Ridgefield Press.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2019
I don’t remember what happened to them, and the first selectman and some people were standing there, and I said, “What happened?”
From Slate • Sep. 20, 2018
After the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, there were so many fund-raisers and celebrity stop-ins that Newtown’s first selectman requested an end to outside events in town.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018
"I haven't been into this port for some time, Captain Candage, but the last trip I made here, as I remember, a man named Rowley, who runs the general store, was first selectman."
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman
