Jerome Patrick Cavanagh (June 16, 1928 November 27, 1979) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1962 to 1970. Initially seen as another John F. Kennedy, his reputation ...
leaders, middle-class leaders, and working-class leaders telling the mayor, 'You have to do something about your police department,'" Thompson said. "In Detroit, the mayor, Jerome Cavanagh, was a liberal mayor who was elected, like de Blasio, on the heels of a more conservative, law-and-order mayor.