Charles F. Grainger was Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1901 to 1905. He became president of Grainger & Company, his family's iron foundry. He was elected to the Board of Aldermen representing the Seventh Ward in 1890. He became board president in 1893, and was quite powerful in the Democrat Party, temporarily eclipsing long-time party boss John Whallen. Grainger was elected mayor in 1901. Wikipedia
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