Aloys P. Kaufmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mayor
Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1902
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 12-Feb-1984
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Aloys P. Kaufmann
- Aloys P.
- Kaufmann (December 23, 1902 in St.
- Louis, Missouri – February 12, 1984 in St.
- Louis) was the 36th Mayor of St.
- Louis, serving from 1943 to 1949. Kaufmann graduated from the Benton College of Law and practiced law in St.
- Louis.
- He was active in Republican Party politics in St.
- Louis, and served as a member of the City party's central committee from 1936 to 1943.
- In 1943, he was elected President of the St.
- Louis Board of Aldermen, defeating Democrat Joseph Darst in the April election. In 1943, Mayor William D.
- Becker was killed in a glider crash at Lambert Airport in St.
- Louis.
- Under the provisions of the city charter, Kaufmann, as President of the Board of Aldermen, became mayor for the remainder of Becker's term.
- Kaufmann was elected to his own term of office in 1945, the last time a Republican has been elected mayor of the city. During his time as mayor, Kaufmann worked to pass a $43 million bond issue, which was approved by the voters in April 1944.
- One of the items funded by the bond issue was an expansion of Lambert Airport from 350 acres (1.4 km2) to 1,400 acres (5.7 km2).
- Other accomplishments during Mayor Kaufmann's term included improvements in sanitation and public health, with the establishment of a rat control system in 1946 and the establishment of a refuse division in 1947.
- Kaufmann was unsuccessful in his efforts to get the Missouri Constitutional Convention to expand the boundaries of St.
- Louis City, which had been fixed in 1876.
- The first attempt to institute an earnings tax in St.
- Louis was approved during Mayor Kaufmann's term, but was overturned by the Missouri Supreme Court because the State Legislature had not authorized such a tax. Mayor Kaufmann left office in 1949.
- He returned to his law practice and remained active in civic affairs.
- In 1954, he became President of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St.
- Louis.
- Aloys P.
- Kaufmann died February 12, 1984, at age 81.
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