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Mayor Chester Kowal
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA
Mayor Chester Kowal
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA

Mayor Chester Kowal

Mayor of Buffalo, New York, American 1904-1966
Chester A. Kowal was an American politician, a basketball player, a boxer and a World War II veteran. From 1962 to 1965 he was mayor of Buffalo, New York; he is the last Republican mayor of that city to date.