Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Nebraska 8 - Omaha and derangement



Champion S. Chase served three separate stints as mayor of Omaha, but was unanimously impeached by the City Council in 1884 for, according to the Douglas County Historical Society, "drunkenness, incompetence by reason of drunkenness, derangement of the nervous system and neglect of duty."

- from the Omaha Herald archive

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