# Susan Weiner > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Weiner > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Susan_Weiner.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Weiner > Source revision: 1324645500 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American politician (1946–2012)}} {{infobox officeholder |name=Susan Weiner |image=Photo of Susan Weiner.jpg |office=62nd [Mayor of Savannah, Georgia](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Savannah%2C_Georgia) |term_start=1992 |term_end=1996 |predecessor=[John Rousakis](/source/John_Rousakis) |successor=[Floyd Adams Jr.](/source/Floyd_Adams_Jr.) |birth_name=Susan Scher |birth_date=1945 or 1946 |birth_place=[Albany, New York](/source/Albany%2C_New_York), U.S. |death_date={{death date and given age|2012|8|11|66}} |death_place=[Gainesville, Georgia](/source/Gainesville%2C_Georgia), U.S. |party=[Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) |alma_mater=[State University of New York at New Paltz](/source/State_University_of_New_York_at_New_Paltz) |profession=Politician }} '''Susan Scher Weiner''' (c. 1946 – August 11, 2012) was an American politician from U.S. state of [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(U.S._state)), and was the first woman to become [Mayor of Savannah](/source/Mayors_of_Savannah%2C_Georgia). She was a [Republican](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)).{{cite news|first=Michelle E.|last=Shaw|title=Susan Weiner, 66: First female mayor of Savannah |url=http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/susan-weiner-66-first-female-mayor-of-savannah-1/nRBc4/ |work=[Atlanta Journal-Constitution](/source/Atlanta_Journal-Constitution) |date=2013-08-13 |access-date=2013-12-02}} ==Background== Weiner, who was [Jewish](/source/Jewish), was born as '''Susan Scher''' in [Albany, New York](/source/Albany%2C_New_York) and graduated from [SUNY New Paltz](/source/SUNY_New_Paltz). She moved to Savannah in the mid-1980s. ==Political career== Weiner ran for [Mayor of Savannah](/source/Mayor_of_Savannah) in 1991. She won the Republican nomination without opposition and defeated five-term [incumbent](/source/incumbent) and [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) nominee [John Rousakis](/source/John_Rousakis) with 54% of the vote.Savannah Morning News, November 6, 1991 She conducted a [law and order](/source/Law_and_order_(politics)) campaign in which she promised to address local crime issues. She also advocated "privatizing some city services, such as sanitation, garbage collection, road maintenance and recreational facility maintenance."Savannah Morning News, July 17, 1991 Weiner was [the first woman mayor of Savannah](/source/List_of_first_women_mayors_in_the_United_States). Under her tenure, six council members were Democrats; only two were Republicans. Eventually, Weiner abandoned most proposals from her platform. In 1995, she was narrowly defeated by Councilor [Floyd Adams Jr.](/source/Floyd_Adams_Jr.), a Democrat and an [African-American](/source/African-American). ==Later life and death== Weiner was a trainer for [the Coverdell Leadership Institute](/source/Paul_Coverdell) from 1996 to 2004. In 2004, then Governor [Sonny Perdue](/source/Sonny_Perdue) appointed her as executive director of the Georgia Council for the Arts. Weiner died from complications of cancer in [Gainesville, Georgia](/source/Gainesville%2C_Georgia) on August 11, 2012 at the age of 66.{{cite web |author=onlineathens.com |url=http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2012-08-13/savannahs-1st-female-mayor-susan-weiner-dies |title=Savannah's 1st female mayor, Susan Weiner, dies |date=2012-08-13 |access-date=2012-08-13 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130104134100/http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2012-08-13/savannahs-1st-female-mayor-susan-weiner-dies |archive-date=2013-01-04 }} ==See also== * [List of mayors of Savannah, Georgia](/source/List_of_mayors_of_Savannah%2C_Georgia) * [List of first women mayors in the United States](/source/List_of_first_women_mayors_in_the_United_States) ==Footnotes== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080206061934/http://www.ci.savannah.ga.us/cityweb/webdatabase.nsf/E12F5A82DA01561685256AB6006C3E62/3F6DC97D79C23C2D85256AB7004832F7 Mayor's official site] {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box| before=[John Rousakis](/source/John_Rousakis), [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))| years=1992-1996| after=[Floyd Adams Jr.](/source/Floyd_Adams_Jr.), [Democrat](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))| title=[Mayor of Savannah](/source/Mayors_of_Savannah%2C_Georgia) }} {{s-end}}{{Mayors of Savannah, Georgia}}{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Weiner, Susan}} Category:2012 deaths Category:20th-century mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Mayors of Savannah, Georgia Category:Women mayors of places in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Jewish American mayors Category:Jewish American women in politics Category:Year of birth uncertain Category:Jewish American people in Georgia (U.S. state) politics Category:Politicians from Albany, New York Category:Georgia (U.S. state) Republicans Category:21st-century American Jews Category:21st-century American women Category:Jews from Georgia (U.S. state) Category:State University of New York at New Paltz alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Susan Weiner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Weiner) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Weiner?action=history)). 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