Mayor
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In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the power
Document of 1389 on the election of the mayor of Stockholm
Arthur Castrén (1866–1946), the Mayor of Helsinki, in the 1930s
Reeve (England)
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In Anglo-Saxon England, a reeve was an administrative official serving the king or a lesser lord in a variety of roles. After the Norman Conquest, it was an office held by a man of lower rank, appoint
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…In modern England and Wales, the position of mayor descends from the feudal lord's bailiff or reeve (see borough). The chief magistrate of London bore the title of portreeve for considerably more than a century after the Norman Conquest. This official…
Oswald the Reeve in "The Reeve's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer
Hexateuch king