I remember Larry Agran because he was the dad of a college classmate of mine and he ran an outsider campaign for the Democratic nomination for President in 1992. I happened to look him up and learned that he’s still in politics, 30 years later, and is the current mayor of Irvine, CA. Better yet — he is serving his sixth term as mayor, no two of which have been consecutive. That has to be some kind of record. Paul Soglin was born about three months after Agran. He has served eight terms as Mayor of Madison, in three contiguous blocks, and the part I like is — no two of those blocks were in consecutive decades! He served as a new UW-Madison grad student radical in the 1970s, a Clintonian New Democr...
I remember Larry Agran because he was the dad of a college classmate of mine and he ran an outsider campaign for the Democratic nomination for President in 1992. I happened to look him up and learned that he’s still in politics, 30 years later, and is the current mayor of Irvine, CA. Better yet — he is serving his sixth term as mayor, no two of which have been consecutive. That has to be some kind of record. Paul Soglin was born about three months after Agran. He has served eight terms as Mayor of Madison, in three contiguous blocks, and the part I like is — no two of those blocks were in consecutive decades! He served as a new UW-Madison grad student radical in the 1970s, a Clintonian New Democrat in the 1990s, and as a grumpy old cuss in the 2010s.